Roy Gill
@roygill.bsky.social
Writes things, sometimes involving a blue box. Likes books, dogs and vinyl 🏳️🌈
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Roy Gill
@roygill.bsky.social
· Sep 19
The Eighth Doctor v Zygons! 📣 Click https://bgfn.sh/8zygons to read all about December's forthcoming adventure. 📣 Paul McGann! 📣 Nicola Walker! 📣 Hattie Morahan! 📣 It's about time!
Really happy to say I have a new Doctor Who audio adventure in this set, out in December - “Lure of the Zygons”! Mysterious Spaceships and Shapeshifting Monsters! 2 parts/2 hours! I hope you’ll give it a listen…
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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#BBC #Ghostwatch is still amazing. And the spiritualist fella is poor Mr Ransome from Spearhead from Space.
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#BBC #Ghostwatch is still amazing. And the spiritualist fella is poor Mr Ransome from Spearhead from Space.
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Sexed up reboot of Ghostwatch on the way.
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Sexed up reboot of Ghostwatch on the way.
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.
One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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🥔 SONTARAN SATURDAY SALE! 🥔 Click https://bgfn.sh/sontar25 to stomp your way to huge savings on selected Doctor Who audio dramas and bundles (download to own and collector's edition CD while stocks last).
Hurry! This offer dies an honourable death in battle at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
Hurry! This offer dies an honourable death in battle at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🥔 SONTARAN SATURDAY SALE! 🥔 Click https://bgfn.sh/sontar25 to stomp your way to huge savings on selected Doctor Who audio dramas and bundles (download to own and collector's edition CD while stocks last).
Hurry! This offer dies an honourable death in battle at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
Hurry! This offer dies an honourable death in battle at 23:59 (UK time) on 05 December 2025.
Revisiting the BBC Narnia and… I do find myself wishing Jaqueline Pearce had been cast as the White Queen (making a lovely triptych along with Moondial and Dark Season)
Although… I can actually imagine her take on the Stone Table sequence being so dark it would’ve failed the Sunday night criteria
Although… I can actually imagine her take on the Stone Table sequence being so dark it would’ve failed the Sunday night criteria
November 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Revisiting the BBC Narnia and… I do find myself wishing Jaqueline Pearce had been cast as the White Queen (making a lovely triptych along with Moondial and Dark Season)
Although… I can actually imagine her take on the Stone Table sequence being so dark it would’ve failed the Sunday night criteria
Although… I can actually imagine her take on the Stone Table sequence being so dark it would’ve failed the Sunday night criteria
I’ve noticed you around
I find you very attractive
Umm
Would you stop playing your trumpet incessantly?
(Catching up on TOTP)
I find you very attractive
Umm
Would you stop playing your trumpet incessantly?
(Catching up on TOTP)
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I’ve noticed you around
I find you very attractive
Umm
Would you stop playing your trumpet incessantly?
(Catching up on TOTP)
I find you very attractive
Umm
Would you stop playing your trumpet incessantly?
(Catching up on TOTP)
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Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
How ABOUT those transparent dangling carrots, though?
(Catching up on TOTP)
(Catching up on TOTP)
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
How ABOUT those transparent dangling carrots, though?
(Catching up on TOTP)
(Catching up on TOTP)
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“Stop trying to make Fetch Priory happen.”
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“Stop trying to make Fetch Priory happen.”
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Apparently BBC 4 are showing the Innes Lloyd documentary from the animated "Savages" release on Christmas Eve. I'm delighted by this news. It's superb, and deserves to be seen by as many people as possible.
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Apparently BBC 4 are showing the Innes Lloyd documentary from the animated "Savages" release on Christmas Eve. I'm delighted by this news. It's superb, and deserves to be seen by as many people as possible.
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What happens when one no longer desires even desire? What is it not even want wanting?
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What happens when one no longer desires even desire? What is it not even want wanting?
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*laughs in evil milkman*
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
*laughs in evil milkman*
Thinking I might suggest ‘Husbands of River Song’ as a back catalogue Christmas Who for family viewing this year… I know they’ve been enjoying watching Alex Kingston on Strictly plus I think Greg Davies role hits differently post Taskmaster…
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thinking I might suggest ‘Husbands of River Song’ as a back catalogue Christmas Who for family viewing this year… I know they’ve been enjoying watching Alex Kingston on Strictly plus I think Greg Davies role hits differently post Taskmaster…
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A video event so huge at the time it spawned its own convention. I imagine Kenny and Kevin will cover this with wit, verve...
"and STYLE, Darling. And STYLE..."
"and STYLE, Darling. And STYLE..."
🥔NEW EPISODE!🥔
Having discussed the outer space potato people in the Shakedown novel last week, today we turn our eyes to the #DoctorWho spin-off video from 1994, with director @kjd42.bsky.social.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
Having discussed the outer space potato people in the Shakedown novel last week, today we turn our eyes to the #DoctorWho spin-off video from 1994, with director @kjd42.bsky.social.
soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
464: Shakedown with Kevin Jon Davies
Last week, we brought you a look at the New Adventure, Shakedown.
Part of it novelised the video release of the production from DreamWatch Media, written by Terrance Dicks.
So, in a sequel to that epi
soundcloud.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A video event so huge at the time it spawned its own convention. I imagine Kenny and Kevin will cover this with wit, verve...
"and STYLE, Darling. And STYLE..."
"and STYLE, Darling. And STYLE..."
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Ok maybe I will do the “modern” doctors too…
#doctorwho
#doctorwho
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Ok maybe I will do the “modern” doctors too…
#doctorwho
#doctorwho
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
A suitably sepulchral animation set to Ivor Cutler’s narration youtu.be/VS-uDupJCSw?...
Ivor Cutler - Life In A Scotch Sitting Room
YouTube video by San Fran
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A suitably sepulchral animation set to Ivor Cutler’s narration youtu.be/VS-uDupJCSw?...
Listening to Storefront Church’s (fabulous) Ink & Oil on vinyl. The strings are so psychedelically woozy I genuinely had to check a streaming copy against it as I had started to worry my copy was pressed off centre…
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Listening to Storefront Church’s (fabulous) Ink & Oil on vinyl. The strings are so psychedelically woozy I genuinely had to check a streaming copy against it as I had started to worry my copy was pressed off centre…
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The time war
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The time war
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"My first introduction to Ivor Cutler was his 1975 album, Velvet Donkey. It sounded like I’d stumbled upon some ancient relic; a pre-historic recording that only a select few had ever been granted the golden opportunity to hear"
Why #IvorCutler is my Spirit Guide, by Hamish Hawk
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Why #IvorCutler is my Spirit Guide, by Hamish Hawk
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November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"My first introduction to Ivor Cutler was his 1975 album, Velvet Donkey. It sounded like I’d stumbled upon some ancient relic; a pre-historic recording that only a select few had ever been granted the golden opportunity to hear"
Why #IvorCutler is my Spirit Guide, by Hamish Hawk
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Why #IvorCutler is my Spirit Guide, by Hamish Hawk
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