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The next - and penultimate episode for this season of The Rue Papers is out! Featuring @weirdinthewade.bsky.social as Rose -

Safe Places - everyone has a safe place - don’t they?

#audiodrama #horrorpodcasts

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S2 Ep13 A Safe Place
Podcast Episode · The Rue Papers · 15/11/2025 · 18m
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Waterloo Station has a Stranger Things Christmas Tree, which I’m pretty sure misses the point of both Stranger Things and Christmas Trees
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Glorious sunset over London tonight
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
As part of my ‘let’s get out there and experience some stuff!’ I’m going to an opera tonight, which is fine; I love opera only I’ve just checked and it’s over three hours long. Which feels excessive…
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Right, that’s Weird in the Wade and Uncanny all caught up. If I listen to any more ghost stories, I’ll have nightmares, so now for one of my other passions - stories of people surviving catastrophic events, and Against All Odds
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Ooh, Ruskington Horror mention! (Hoping for a Hairy Hands mention too) #Uncanny
November 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Ooh, the A229! Good start to the Road Ghosts one. #Uncanny
November 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Hmm. Having trouble believing The Devil’s Den UFO - it sounds a lot like a movie #Uncanny
November 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Well, the Old Jim episode of #Uncanny is terrifying (stealing someone else’s voice huh? That sounds familiar…)

This does sound like the kind of area I used to live in - I lived in a town but there are so many tiny remote villages in the area
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
And now to finally to catch up on #uncanny - I haven’t listened to any of the new series since the first episode - I’m looking forward to this. (Especially the roads one, Road ghost stories fascinate me, why haven’t I written one?)
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I love creating my podcast, and sinking into the story I’ve created, but I’ve been so deeply engrossed in it the past few months I’ve been barely aware of the world outside. It’s a bit of a relief to look up and see all the other stories out there, waiting for me to pay attention
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I’ve bought myself some tiny little earbuds that are small enough to fit into my pocket so I can take them everywhere and at any point, sit down and listen to a podcast. Although the idea of playing some of the most terrifying listens out loud on the train is wickedly tempting…
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I’m having a podcast catch up weekend. I’ve been working so hard on my own (the finale is almost an hour long!) that I am sadly behind on all the podcasts I love so catching up. Finally. Starting with Weird in the Wade.
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
And speaking of @weirdinthewade.bsky.social - I’m just listening to her fantastic episode The Potton Road Poltergeist and I just screamed in the middle of this coffee shop
35 The Potton Road Poltergeist
Podcast Episode · Weird in the Wade · 10/11/2025 · 1h 6m
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November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Rue Papers will return for a third and final series next year…

(Or at least - final in this form. I suspect Beatrice won’t let me go that easily…)

And between now and then - I may publish a few text stories and short audio stories on the Patreon; as the whim takes me…
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The season finale of S2 of the Rue Papers is out!

It all ends tonight….

Featuring Michael Dixon, Shyama Kasinathan and @weirdinthewade.bsky.social being frankly amazing as Rose…
S2 Ep14
Podcast Episode · The Rue Papers · 29/11/2025 · 49m
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November 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Ooh, hell of an ending to the latest Pluribus, I am enjoying this very much. Carol Sturka is a magnificently angry heroine, I love her.
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Love visiting the library on a winter evening. The dark cold outside - the warm cosiness inside (don’t think about the basement). The shelves of books on all sorts of things (ghost stories, where are the ghost stories) the soft voices of people choosing their weekend (whispers from the basement)
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
At the BFI to watch A Cottage in Dartmoor, a silent movie directed by Anthony Asquith with live piano accompaniment.

Again, I know nothing about the story and I am heroically restraining myself from reading the notes beforehand so I’m not spoiled. I just liked the title…
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I’m at the opera! Seeing The Makropulos Case by Janacek. All I know is it’s about a woman who lives forever. I don’t often see operas I know nothing about, so very excited
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I have a habit of going to look at modern art installations that are supposed to be unsettling and finding them comforting. Like Babel. In Tate Britain yesterday, saw Mona Hatoum’s Current Disturbance, a box of lightbulbs that go on and off randomly, with the noise of electric current. It’s
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This coffee shop is playing a very slow strings version of Last Christmas. Three thoughts - it really is a beautiful piece of music. It also is very clearly 80s music any way it’s played. And does this mean I lose Last Christmas before November is even over?
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Also went back to the Lee Miller exhibition. Interesting that her pre-war photos - the surrealism, the travel photos - feel like she’s trying to escape, to look beyond horizon, but all her war stories, both fashion and documentary, feel fully present, like she’s engaging and recording that moment
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
What is it about toothbrush adverts that mean they are always really patronising? And toothpaste ones intensely annoying. Is it me? It’s just me isn’t it. For some reason highly irritated by all dental products advert
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The Marie Antoinette exhibition at V and A is fascinating and beautiful but really packed, so difficult to see anything. Includes the rumoured guillotine blade which seems odd for a celebration of her style but also some truly gorgeous dresses (not all hers)
November 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
That cinema ad for google Pixel phone that shown someone getting out their phone, in the cinema, in the middle of the movie, to ask the AI assistant how the story ends, is so egregiously offensive to cinema viewers that I deeply hate Google Pixel phones now
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM