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
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.
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...
We are fucked as a species.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
We are fucked as a species.
Second go at this tonight, having convinced myself a few months back that it caught me on a bad day. It's a sort of anti-Elephant, but one in which much of the action doesn't engage me at all. Breaks my heart to be down on an Akerman, who in my eyes can do no wrong. Some lovely moments though.
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Second go at this tonight, having convinced myself a few months back that it caught me on a bad day. It's a sort of anti-Elephant, but one in which much of the action doesn't engage me at all. Breaks my heart to be down on an Akerman, who in my eyes can do no wrong. Some lovely moments though.
Blackeyes viewers having flashbacks.
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Blackeyes viewers having flashbacks.
Coming up this Sunday on Resonance FM at noon. Must be two decades since they last let me on air. Thanks to Ivor for the second chance.
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Coming up this Sunday on Resonance FM at noon. Must be two decades since they last let me on air. Thanks to Ivor for the second chance.
I think we can all agree that Evri has excelled itself with its confirmation photo of my parcel delivery.
November 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I think we can all agree that Evri has excelled itself with its confirmation photo of my parcel delivery.
A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A welcome gust of publicity in the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for our Derek Bailey events in December. Links in thread.
Good luck with that, whoniverse - if that even is your real name.
FYI Ama*** will not be stocking Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. The book is freely available from source at cover price £14.99 plus postage (reprint next week), or from your bricks and mortar bookshop via Gardners distribution. Ta!
FYI Ama*** will not be stocking Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. The book is freely available from source at cover price £14.99 plus postage (reprint next week), or from your bricks and mortar bookshop via Gardners distribution. Ta!
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Good luck with that, whoniverse - if that even is your real name.
FYI Ama*** will not be stocking Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. The book is freely available from source at cover price £14.99 plus postage (reprint next week), or from your bricks and mortar bookshop via Gardners distribution. Ta!
FYI Ama*** will not be stocking Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene. The book is freely available from source at cover price £14.99 plus postage (reprint next week), or from your bricks and mortar bookshop via Gardners distribution. Ta!
Frankly no Arena at 50 celebration would be complete without Mary Dickinson. Her Kendo Nagasaki/Peter Blake film, an Indian rope trick of the documentary art, is on BBC Four at 10pm tonight. The last time I watched it, this happened... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Frankly no Arena at 50 celebration would be complete without Mary Dickinson. Her Kendo Nagasaki/Peter Blake film, an Indian rope trick of the documentary art, is on BBC Four at 10pm tonight. The last time I watched it, this happened... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Evergreen: Ken Russell interviewed for Oxford University magazine Isis 26.1.66.
October 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Evergreen: Ken Russell interviewed for Oxford University magazine Isis 26.1.66.
It's a reget I have never been able to access the former Little Theatre Club, but tonight I visited the other birthplace of free improvisation: The Grapes in Sheffield, former HQ of Bailey, Bryars and Oxley. They still do nice a pint. We had a couple just to be absolutely sure.
October 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It's a reget I have never been able to access the former Little Theatre Club, but tonight I visited the other birthplace of free improvisation: The Grapes in Sheffield, former HQ of Bailey, Bryars and Oxley. They still do nice a pint. We had a couple just to be absolutely sure.
Welcome to Sheffield
October 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Welcome to Sheffield
Longer version for Facebook... full text also in ALT.
October 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Longer version for Facebook... full text also in ALT.
Very sad to read that Nabil Shaban has died. A formidable activist and creative in all manner of ways. During a wideranging interview in 2016, I told him he was the very last person filmed by Derek Jarman while he still possessed sight. He didn't know and it moved him greatly.
October 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Very sad to read that Nabil Shaban has died. A formidable activist and creative in all manner of ways. During a wideranging interview in 2016, I told him he was the very last person filmed by Derek Jarman while he still possessed sight. He didn't know and it moved him greatly.
Off to Sheffield to see only the blummin' Cabs!
October 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Off to Sheffield to see only the blummin' Cabs!
The mixed reviews made me wonder, but have finally caught up on The Roses and enjoyed it enormously. Mind you I'm already well disposed to 90% of the cast.
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The mixed reviews made me wonder, but have finally caught up on The Roses and enjoyed it enormously. Mind you I'm already well disposed to 90% of the cast.
Post. Lovely post.
October 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Post. Lovely post.
If anything symbolises the BBC's failure to appreciate what they have in the Written Archives Centre in 2025, it is surely its bizarre inability to fix a basic typo in the booklet of the Doctor Who BluRay box sets for what feels like the millionth time.
In reality it is EIGHTEEN times.
In reality it is EIGHTEEN times.
October 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If anything symbolises the BBC's failure to appreciate what they have in the Written Archives Centre in 2025, it is surely its bizarre inability to fix a basic typo in the booklet of the Doctor Who BluRay box sets for what feels like the millionth time.
In reality it is EIGHTEEN times.
In reality it is EIGHTEEN times.
Bill Edgar in the Times. Oof.
October 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Bill Edgar in the Times. Oof.
Some loud BUSINESS people have sat down next to us in a coffee shop at Marylebone station. We are quoting Howards' Way liberally.
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Some loud BUSINESS people have sat down next to us in a coffee shop at Marylebone station. We are quoting Howards' Way liberally.
OUT TODAY!
"Crank up the long overdue remaster, baby
Don't let the music stop"
"Crank up the long overdue remaster, baby
Don't let the music stop"
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
OUT TODAY!
"Crank up the long overdue remaster, baby
Don't let the music stop"
"Crank up the long overdue remaster, baby
Don't let the music stop"
Hits you like [safe] or A Woman Under the Influence. Uncomfortable, bristling, suffocating. But we fled the Q&A.
October 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hits you like [safe] or A Woman Under the Influence. Uncomfortable, bristling, suffocating. But we fled the Q&A.
"Special Event"? I should coco. You can buy tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
October 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
"Special Event"? I should coco. You can buy tickets here: www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...