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Chris Chibnall
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Novelist, screenwriter, showrunner, playwright
Sunday Times #2 Bestseller, Death at the White Hart, OUT NOW
The Parkwood Murders: pre-order for 2026
Coming soon: Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials debuts 15 January 2026 on Netflix
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Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social · Sep 25
Paperback publication day today in the UK! 🥳

* Sunday Times Top 5 Bestseller
* One of Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year
* Amazon’s Best Books of 2025
* Good Housekeeping’s Good Books autumn selection

Your perfect pocket paperback companion. Available all over the gaff.
The front cover of the paperback edition of Death at the White Hart showing a Dorset village pub (with a deer on its sign) against a distant coastal background.
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All three seasons of #Broadchurch are coming to Netflix UK from Tuesday 18 November.
The Netflix UK page for Broadchurch, featuring the cast of season 1 standing on a beach with a crime scene incident tent lit up behind them.
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Exactly how I felt being at the birth of our son.
thegmcconnachie.bsky.social Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 3d
Basketball coach is asked about his player leaving the squad ahead of a semi-final to be at the birth of his child and his response is perfection.
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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I present the UK’s one and only TV show about books. We feature readers & writers from across Scotland, around the UK and all over the world. It’s commissioned by BBC Scotland & made by IWC. Public broadcasting is a shared space for sharing stories & building bridges.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Scotland - The Big Scottish Book Club - Available now
Available episodes of The Big Scottish Book Club
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

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November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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This piece, as cited by @emilybell.bsky.social & @taraconlan.bsky.social, is the big picture of what’s going on. The playbook successfully deployed in the US is happening here.

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned-influencers-media-emerge-new-mainstream-2025-11-08/
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Superb, old school, independent local journalism, in a new model of collaboration and funding. Not seen the conclusions of this reporting picked up/acknowledged yet by other outlets. This is the sort of reporting they used to do.

https://www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Been enjoying watching videos of Radiohead’s return to the stage last night. What a setlist! Anyway, seemed like a good excuse to repost this old favourite I drew a few years back.
November 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Agatha Christie invites you to a Netflix mystery…

Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials debuts 15 January on Netflix, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce, Helena Bonham Carter and Martin Freeman.
November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Coming in 2026 📚💙
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Dad's Army - Getting The Bird (27th October 1972). A moment of Croft/Perry pathos.
October 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Love the cover art for the Japanese edition.
The cover art for the Japanese edition of Death at the White Hart - the winding street of a Dorsetvillage at night with the coast on the distance. A white silhouette of a deer peeps out from between the thatched houses.
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Tomorrow: Dorchester!
Friday: Yeovil!
Last Death at the White Hart events.
October 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Also: The Chair Company.
a man is sitting on a couch with the words it 's really really good behind him
ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with the words it 's really really good behind him
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October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Why, yes, @helenlewis.bsky.social did go to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country?
What it’s like to watch Louis C.K. do stand-up in Saudi Arabia
www.theatlantic.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Was simultaneously thrilled and slightly terrified to be subjected to The Shoot Treatment by the brilliant @4hundredblows.bsky.social for @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social
This show - and Martin himself - always manages to provoke conversations few other interviews get to.
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Final Death at the White Hart events next week, back in the South West. Dorchester next Thurs (23rd) and Yeovil on Fri (24th)
https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/chris-chibnall-death-at-the-white-hart/
https://www.yeovilliteraryfestival.co.uk/whats-on/all-shows/chris-chibnall/10069
Chris Chibnall – Death at the White Hart | Dorchester Literary Festival
The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it as one of the most picturesque spots in Dorset: two pubs, a small playground, enough gorgeous cottages to keep a thatcher ... Chris Chibnall – Death at ...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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#DoctorWho Postcards are now available to buy! 15 Doctors. 15 debut stories. Published by Penguin Books in another universe, in a different time. Get them here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop
October 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Congratulations to @johnrivers.bsky.social, @aquatics64.bsky.social, @gasbirder.bsky.social who each win a pack of my TV Crime Penguin Book postcards. Nobody guessed all 15, but I think the first was pretty hard to "crack". Here they all are, and now available to buy: colemandesign.co.uk/shop
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🤯Death at the White Hart is Number 2 in the Sunday Times Bestseller list!

Thanks so much if you’ve bought it. The support from everyone - booksellers, readers, events, podcasters, media - has been immense. And the team @michaeljbooks.bsky.social have been incredible. 📚💙
The Sunday Times Bestseller list for paperbacks, from 12 October 2025, with Death at the White Hart at number 2.
October 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Get your guesses in today. You may not have to know all of them to win — the three people with the most correct get a pack!
colemandesign.bsky.social Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social · Oct 4
WIN a set of postcards of TV crime series as Penguin book covers. Simply guess which series is depicted on each cover. The earliest was broadcast in 1969. All originated on TV (so no Morse, Marple etc). Email [email protected] & I'll pick three from a digital deerstalker. Deadline: 10 Oct.
October 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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This is a lovely hour’s listening. Not just the unheard-since-1975 audio with Lennon, but Nicky Horne recounting the experience of travelling to New York as a 24 year old and interviewing his musical hero at the Dakota.

www.boomradiouk.com/player/boom-...
Nicky Horne on Lennon - Boom Rock
On what would have been John's 85th birthday, Nicky opens up about his 1975 New York encounter with him and plays part of the interview.
www.boomradiouk.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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US #Traitors casts sneaky & backstabbing celebrities to amp up drama. UK celeb version already feels smart for the opposite instinct: national treasures, Olympians and overall sound types. Their liking for each other makes the game more challenging and the programme funnier & warmer. Great first ep.
October 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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In the creative industries/the media and want to mentor? @artsemergency.bsky.social is looking for enthusiastic professionals
Although we have lots of great potential mentors, we are still short of applicants in the Merseyside region and we could do with more applicants in London working in the following career areas: - Gaming and animation - Fashion design - Broadcast journalism - Visual arts: illustrators / people with illustration experience or any experience relevant to character design - Performing arts: musical theatre performers or people with experience in the musical theatre industry - Film & TV - on screen - Architecture and interior design
October 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM