Dirk Maggs
@dirkmaggs.bsky.social
#1 New York Times Audio Bestseller. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Superman, Batman (BBC Radio); Alien, The Sandman (Audible) and many other audio productions. Writes. Directs. Plays Drums.
No AI needed. 50% 🇳🇱 50% 🇬🇧 + a smidge of 🏴 = 100 % 🇪🇺
No AI needed. 50% 🇳🇱 50% 🇬🇧 + a smidge of 🏴 = 100 % 🇪🇺
RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
RELEASED TODAY thanks to Penguin Random House and DC Comics our ‘audio movie’ of the graphic novel KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. This production gave me the chance to return after three decades to both Metropolis *and* Gotham City. Here's what the author says about our new version: 1/14
Trojan Wars by Sean Street.
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Trojan Wars by Sean Street.
And who played her.
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
And who played her.
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".
Post you from a different era - me in my happy place with my best pal, then, now and always, 1985.
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Post you from a different era - me in my happy place with my best pal, then, now and always, 1985.
Dump Together? An angle The Beatles never thought of for the Abbey Road cover from a shop window in Bilbao, Spain.
October 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dump Together? An angle The Beatles never thought of for the Abbey Road cover from a shop window in Bilbao, Spain.
Post is wrapped on KINGDOM COME. Due for release from Penguin Random House Audio and DC Comics on November 18th.
October 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Post is wrapped on KINGDOM COME. Due for release from Penguin Random House Audio and DC Comics on November 18th.
RIP John Woodvine. He, Jenny Agutter & Brian Glover reprised their movie roles in our BBC Radio ‘An American Werewolf In London’. In rehearsal I took him through an extra scene I had written (with John Landis’s permission). “Don’t worry Dirk”, said John W, “I’ll do my best to improve your writing…”
October 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
RIP John Woodvine. He, Jenny Agutter & Brian Glover reprised their movie roles in our BBC Radio ‘An American Werewolf In London’. In rehearsal I took him through an extra scene I had written (with John Landis’s permission). “Don’t worry Dirk”, said John W, “I’ll do my best to improve your writing…”
There's a 'Radio Comedy' facebook group off which I suspect I am about to be kicked, as I keep correcting the posts of its main contributor, whose dedication is impressive but whose research is abysmal.
September 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
There's a 'Radio Comedy' facebook group off which I suspect I am about to be kicked, as I keep correcting the posts of its main contributor, whose dedication is impressive but whose research is abysmal.
It’s the 85th Anniversary of The Battle Of Britain. This never gets old.
September 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It’s the 85th Anniversary of The Battle Of Britain. This never gets old.
Sad to report that Tony Award-winning actor/composer Frank Lazarus - Ravelli, the Chico Marx character in our BBC “Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel” re-creations of the early 1990s - died yesterday at the age of 86. The recent repeats of Flywheel on BBC Radio 4 Extra speak are fitting tribute. RIP.
September 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Sad to report that Tony Award-winning actor/composer Frank Lazarus - Ravelli, the Chico Marx character in our BBC “Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel” re-creations of the early 1990s - died yesterday at the age of 86. The recent repeats of Flywheel on BBC Radio 4 Extra speak are fitting tribute. RIP.
Having spent 18 months of my early career Network Directing af BBC Television these clocks by @hiddenbritain.bsky.social are a terrific reminder of happy days.
September 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Having spent 18 months of my early career Network Directing af BBC Television these clocks by @hiddenbritain.bsky.social are a terrific reminder of happy days.
Here's a clip of KINGDOM COME audio promoting the new production, alongside Alex Ross's stunning art. Note: Alex is a genius, but you don't need to read along to follow our story. Your imagination can make its own pictures, and usually does.
September 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Here's a clip of KINGDOM COME audio promoting the new production, alongside Alex Ross's stunning art. Note: Alex is a genius, but you don't need to read along to follow our story. Your imagination can make its own pictures, and usually does.
With Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman & more - even the Joker - after three decades I'm back in Metropolis and Gotham City in November with KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, a fully cast, cinematic audio drama from DC and Penguin Random House Audio, with music by my SANDMAN pal James Hannigan.
September 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
With Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman & more - even the Joker - after three decades I'm back in Metropolis and Gotham City in November with KINGDOM COME by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, a fully cast, cinematic audio drama from DC and Penguin Random House Audio, with music by my SANDMAN pal James Hannigan.
The things I've gone through for Weyland-Yutani - er, Audible.
August 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The things I've gone through for Weyland-Yutani - er, Audible.
Yes indeedy. Far left.
July 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Yes indeedy. Far left.
After a long break our much-missed and beloved Marx Brothers’ ‘Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel’ begins a cycle of repeats with the first episode today, Saturday 26th July 2025 on Radio 4 Extra at 9.00am, 2.00pm and 8.00pm.
July 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
After a long break our much-missed and beloved Marx Brothers’ ‘Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel’ begins a cycle of repeats with the first episode today, Saturday 26th July 2025 on Radio 4 Extra at 9.00am, 2.00pm and 8.00pm.
I joined the BBC on the same day as Miti Adhikari who went on to be one of its finest sound engineers & music producers. Yesterday all of us on that long-ago course got together to raise a vintage BBC paper cup of fizz to our dear pal (who Dave Grohl saluted onstage when he retired). Rock on, Miti.
July 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I joined the BBC on the same day as Miti Adhikari who went on to be one of its finest sound engineers & music producers. Yesterday all of us on that long-ago course got together to raise a vintage BBC paper cup of fizz to our dear pal (who Dave Grohl saluted onstage when he retired). Rock on, Miti.
Tomorrow night I'm giving a talk about my career at the Haywards Heath Arts Festival in West Sussex, England. There's a ton of clips (many video, rarely if ever seen) and a lot of inside stories about working in radio, audio, animation and more. If you can make it I think you'll enjoy it.
June 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Tomorrow night I'm giving a talk about my career at the Haywards Heath Arts Festival in West Sussex, England. There's a ton of clips (many video, rarely if ever seen) and a lot of inside stories about working in radio, audio, animation and more. If you can make it I think you'll enjoy it.
Have just spent a super week at my favourite sound studio in London. Happy 40th Birthday to The Soundhouse.
June 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Have just spent a super week at my favourite sound studio in London. Happy 40th Birthday to The Soundhouse.
For the avoidance of further confusion this guy - or possibly his helper - is *now* running this account.
June 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
For the avoidance of further confusion this guy - or possibly his helper - is *now* running this account.
Not much interested in the politics of parades but as a drummer my eyes are drawn to the fella with the bass drum and, as always with patriotic events like this in a country that makes superb drums, puzzled that he’s playing a Japanese instrument.
(Also not a marching drum - see US drum catalogs)
(Also not a marching drum - see US drum catalogs)
June 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Not much interested in the politics of parades but as a drummer my eyes are drawn to the fella with the bass drum and, as always with patriotic events like this in a country that makes superb drums, puzzled that he’s playing a Japanese instrument.
(Also not a marching drum - see US drum catalogs)
(Also not a marching drum - see US drum catalogs)
Wishing all Delta Tau Chi Alumni a fun-packed day.
June 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Wishing all Delta Tau Chi Alumni a fun-packed day.