Bobby Seal
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writing on the margins
writing on the margins
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
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November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Three questions for you:
1. What was the first sci-fi drama aired on BBC television?
2. In what year was it broadcast?
3. From what language was the script translated into English?
Answers here:
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1. What was the first sci-fi drama aired on BBC television?
2. In what year was it broadcast?
3. From what language was the script translated into English?
Answers here:
psychogeographicreview.com/rossums-univ... #BBC #Sci-fi #robot
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Three questions for you:
1. What was the first sci-fi drama aired on BBC television?
2. In what year was it broadcast?
3. From what language was the script translated into English?
Answers here:
psychogeographicreview.com/rossums-univ... #BBC #Sci-fi #robot
1. What was the first sci-fi drama aired on BBC television?
2. In what year was it broadcast?
3. From what language was the script translated into English?
Answers here:
psychogeographicreview.com/rossums-univ... #BBC #Sci-fi #robot
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (1920) - new blog post psychogeographicreview.com/rossums-univ...
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (1920)
Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written by the Czech dramatist, Karel Čapek, in 1920 and was first performed on stage in 1921. It is known as Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti in the original Czech …
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November 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (1920) - new blog post psychogeographicreview.com/rossums-univ...
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett — life with a price tag bookertalk.com/anna-of-the-...
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett — life with a price tag : BookerTalk
Anna of the Five Towns was the first of Arnold Bennett’s novels to be set in the pottery towns of Staffordshire. Through six novels published between 1902 and 1918 he gives a realistic picture of life...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett — life with a price tag bookertalk.com/anna-of-the-...
psychogeographicreview.com/book-of-the-... As a mark of respect, here is my piece on Gillian Tindall's seminal work 'The Fields Beneath'. 2/2
Book of the Month – April 2012 – Gillian Tindall: The Fields Beneath
I found my copy of Gillian Tindall’s The Fields Beneath in a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway one August afternoon last year. Strange to be buying a London book on a visit to…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
psychogeographicreview.com/book-of-the-... As a mark of respect, here is my piece on Gillian Tindall's seminal work 'The Fields Beneath'. 2/2
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... Very sad to hear of the passing of Gillian Tindall. Her writing was so influential for so many of us. 1/2
Gillian Tindall obituary
Writer, historian and biographer who wove archaeology, social history, myth and religion into her work
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October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... Very sad to hear of the passing of Gillian Tindall. Her writing was so influential for so many of us. 1/2
Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space
September 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space
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. @bobbyseal.bsky.social gave Lizzy Laurance's "Rocketman" a nice review, here: psychogeographicreview.com/rocketman-by...
Rocketman by Lizzy Laurance
Through songs I dreamt the stories of the boat, listening to its sounds and its silences. Rocketman is the debut album of London-based sound artist and composer, Lizzy Laurance. To work on her proj…
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September 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
. @bobbyseal.bsky.social gave Lizzy Laurance's "Rocketman" a nice review, here: psychogeographicreview.com/rocketman-by...
Chester Man Gets Stoned - new blog post. psychogeographicreview.com/chester-man-... #Chester #RonChesterman #RollingStones #Strawbs #ABCCinema
Chester Man Gets Stoned
Their performance lasted about half an hour and they sung about eight numbers, although because of all the noise the fans were making, and the primitive sound system on stage, you couldn’t hear any…
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September 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Chester Man Gets Stoned - new blog post. psychogeographicreview.com/chester-man-... #Chester #RonChesterman #RollingStones #Strawbs #ABCCinema
Chester Man - new blog post about the folk musician and archivist Ron Chesterman psychogeographicreview.com/chester-man/ #FolkMusic #Chester #Strawbs
Chester Man
He was a unique man and a great musician. We shared a love of history… he could turn a mundane drive through London into a colourful, historical, guided tour. … Even though he had been unwell… the …
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September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Chester Man - new blog post about the folk musician and archivist Ron Chesterman psychogeographicreview.com/chester-man/ #FolkMusic #Chester #Strawbs
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"Liverpool is always more beautiful in the rain."
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
Liverpool Story | Voices on the Landscape | Jeff Young
YouTube video by Shut Out The Light Films
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September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"Liverpool is always more beautiful in the rain."
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
Jeff Young discusses his relationship with the city.
An outtake from feature documentary, Liverpool Story,
available to stream on True Story now: www.truestory.film/liverpool-...
@sotl-films.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqmo...
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I'll forgo the ghosts of grand house avenues – all driverless coaches, headless horses in finest tack – for lonely lane phantoms. Narrow paths that refuse space for spirit avoidance, routes where the only way home is shade-troubled. This is my haunted hodology. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
September 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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The Ghost Signs of Montréal psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-si... via @bobbyseal.bsky.social
The Ghost Signs of Montréal
I attended the Montréal World Film Festival while travelling in Québec in 2016. I remember it was a slightly chaotic affair and it came as no surprise that the festival, founded in 1977, finally fo…
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September 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The Ghost Signs of Montréal - new blog post psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-si... #Montréal #Québec #Canada #GhostSigns
The Ghost Signs of Montréal
I attended the Montréal World Film Festival while travelling in Québec in 2016. I remember it was a slightly chaotic affair and it came as no surprise that the festival, founded in 1977, finally fo…
psychogeographicreview.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Ghost Signs of Montréal - new blog post psychogeographicreview.com/the-ghost-si... #Montréal #Québec #Canada #GhostSigns
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The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.
The War for the Imagination
I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sap...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.
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Brilliant, rousing, moving @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. As a Librarian, it also made me cry: the imagination 'that has empathy for the refugee .. the child in Gaza, the prisoner...that can work to grasp the dimensions & impacts of the climate crisis & our eternal inseparability from nature..'
The battle against authoritarianism is fought in the streets, but also in the mind.
The War for the Imagination
I and we are wildlife whose natural habitat is libraries, when it comes to physical space, because they contain books in which minds roam free through time and space, encounter Dogen and Dante and Sap...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Brilliant, rousing, moving @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. As a Librarian, it also made me cry: the imagination 'that has empathy for the refugee .. the child in Gaza, the prisoner...that can work to grasp the dimensions & impacts of the climate crisis & our eternal inseparability from nature..'