Ian Greaves
@greavesian.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Pinned
A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.
The late Roger Jenkins' camera script for one of my favourite bits of disturbed Seventies television. Delighted and touched to be handed it today for permanent safekeeping.
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The late Roger Jenkins' camera script for one of my favourite bits of disturbed Seventies television. Delighted and touched to be handed it today for permanent safekeeping.
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Sue Johnston, Paul Copley (in seven original Plays for Today!) and Alexa Davies are a fine small ensemble in tonight's Play for Today, BIG WINNERS, at 9pm on Channel 5. Directed by Emma Turner and written by Martha Watson Allpress, it's well worth watching.
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
Brookside legend Sue Johnston stars in Play for Today revival - how to watch
Sue Johnston stars in the revival of Play for Today revival.
www.liverpoolworld.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sue Johnston, Paul Copley (in seven original Plays for Today!) and Alexa Davies are a fine small ensemble in tonight's Play for Today, BIG WINNERS, at 9pm on Channel 5. Directed by Emma Turner and written by Martha Watson Allpress, it's well worth watching.
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
www.liverpoolworld.uk/whats-on/bro...
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Dream jobs do come along… I’ve spent the last few months immersed in BBC Scotland’s City Lights as Assistant Producer on a new 60min doc telling the story of the show. With vintage clips + new interviews, it’s pure dead brilliant!
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dream jobs do come along… I’ve spent the last few months immersed in BBC Scotland’s City Lights as Assistant Producer on a new 60min doc telling the story of the show. With vintage clips + new interviews, it’s pure dead brilliant!
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
On telly/iPlayer 30th November.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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I am International Men’s Day and International Women’s Day. I am mud and flame.
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I am International Men’s Day and International Women’s Day. I am mud and flame.
Emperor Hirohito could have seen Mr TSW 1982.
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Emperor Hirohito could have seen Mr TSW 1982.
Pet Shop Boys tickets secured. Phew. And also ouch.
November 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Pet Shop Boys tickets secured. Phew. And also ouch.
Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Encouraging to see the scandal of changes to the BBC Written Archives Centre mentioned in this important piece for City AM from the British Academy's Hetan Shah. "We must remember that ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation." www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
Glad to have caught up on this substantial, precise piece for Equator on the BBC's fatal obsession with over-correction. www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Glad to have caught up on this substantial, precise piece for Equator on the BBC's fatal obsession with over-correction. www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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Applause to @greavesian.bsky.social for organising the showing of all episodes of Derek Bailey's excellent TV series on improvisation, On the Edge, at London's Barbican. Haven't seen these in years.
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Applause to @greavesian.bsky.social for organising the showing of all episodes of Derek Bailey's excellent TV series on improvisation, On the Edge, at London's Barbican. Haven't seen these in years.
Just seven tickets left. We kick off at 2.
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Just seven tickets left. We kick off at 2.
Just under 20 tickets left. There was a bit of a flurry today. Do join us tomorrow if you can.
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just under 20 tickets left. There was a bit of a flurry today. Do join us tomorrow if you can.
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The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
Defending the WAC: Our Rights, Their Wrongs: The WAC Campaign To Date by John Wyver
Just about exactly a year ago, on 19 November 2024, I e-mailed a group of colleagues expressing concern about the Terms of Use researchers had to sign up to it secure access to the immeasurably rich…
cstonline.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The WAC campaign to date
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
More from me with details of progress (or lack thereof) in the campaign against the shutting down of access at the Written Archives Centre, and a summary of quite why this policy shift is, simply and straightforwardly, wrong.
cstonline.net/defending-th...
A welcome intervention by J.E. Smyth in the latest @thetls.bsky.social "The BBC is restricting access to its archives." www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
Who controls the past
The most accessible archives are usually those managed by universities and public libraries. Corporations are arguably less welcoming: mindful of brand reputation and profitability, they have been kno...
www.the-tls.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A welcome intervention by J.E. Smyth in the latest @thetls.bsky.social "The BBC is restricting access to its archives." www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
48 hours until the return of Derek Bailey and Jeremy Marre's On the Edge to the screen, and all in one afternoon at the Barbican. Saturday 2pm. Mine eyes have seen the BFI files and they look and sound glorious. All speakers confirmed; a few tickets left. Buy: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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Happy new Play for Today day to all who celebrate.
November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Happy new Play for Today day to all who celebrate.
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A pleasant surprise awaiting me when I got home this evening!
November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A pleasant surprise awaiting me when I got home this evening!
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◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
Houchen’s deprivation failure exposed – official
Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
◾ >9 years since Tees Valley voted for supposed benefits of Brexit
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
◾ >8 since Houchen was elected Mayor of Tees Valley
◾ >6 since Johnson promised to level up left-behind areas
...Middlesbrough remains the local authority with the highest proportion of most deprived neighbourhoods in England.
It's as if a Georgian gazetteer had achieved sentience and decided to turn to scriptwriting. I think the clock might have stopped, we're still only 20 minutes in.
In order to entertain my mum on a home visit, I have agreed to watch Downtown Abbey The Finale with her after dinner tonight. I have never seen a single episode before. Pray for me.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's as if a Georgian gazetteer had achieved sentience and decided to turn to scriptwriting. I think the clock might have stopped, we're still only 20 minutes in.
In order to entertain my mum on a home visit, I have agreed to watch Downtown Abbey The Finale with her after dinner tonight. I have never seen a single episode before. Pray for me.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In order to entertain my mum on a home visit, I have agreed to watch Downtown Abbey The Finale with her after dinner tonight. I have never seen a single episode before. Pray for me.
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Terrific story - and a great example of the serendipitous discoveries that BBC Written Archives Centre once made possible, and which with the recent restrictions on access is now next to impossible
Six-and-a-half years ago, while researching something else at Caversham, I happened across a little fact and thought, "Oh, that's interesting, I must do something with that some day..."
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Today is that day!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great Yarmouth Town's 'amazing' place in TV football history
How a small, non-league team became the first football club from Norfolk ever to appear in a live TV game.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Terrific story - and a great example of the serendipitous discoveries that BBC Written Archives Centre once made possible, and which with the recent restrictions on access is now next to impossible
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Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Can’t believe Disney have pulled all their money out of Tim Davie.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
Here’s hoping they go back to a Director General with smaller scale stories, set mainly in Broadcasting House, and bring back some classic old baddies, like the National Viewers And Listeners Association.
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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.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
Today's Derek Bailey special with me, Mark Wastell, John Butcher, Tim Fletcher and host Ivor Kallin is now available to stream. Play once play often.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...
The Ambrosia Rasputin Show - 09 Nov 2025
www.mixcloud.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Today's Derek Bailey special with me, Mark Wastell, John Butcher, Tim Fletcher and host Ivor Kallin is now available to stream. Play once play often.
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...
www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/th...