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J. P. Paradise
@jpparadise.bsky.social
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Blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
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I may have had a small hand in this.
wharfwriters.bsky.social Wharf Writers' Group @wharfwriters.bsky.social · 2d
We're on air again. Being featured tomorrow on local BBC Upload (see image). The Legend of the Moonrakers rides once again!
BBC Upload logo. Text says 'We're getting featured on Upload' Text from an email from BBC saying when and where our short play The Legend of the Moonrakers is being broadcast on local BBC Upload
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
jpparadise.bsky.social
Entered 'matriarch' into my MacBook's thesaurus, looking for an alternative for a story I'm working on. This is the suggestion.
A screenshot from my MacBook's thesaurus. In the search box in the top right, I have entered the word 'matriarch'. On the left it says 'Did you mean?' and underneath suggests 'patriarch'. The rest of the page is dedicated to a definition of patriarch. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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More recording under way for new podcast material. Hope to be uploading soon.
Sound proof boards behind a small table upon which sits a podcast mic, a laptop and headphones and iPad with script.
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Listen to Josh Hogan, a lad who is going to go far, perform this monologue on @bbcupload / @bbcwiltshire this Thursday. It features an atmospheric backing track by mix-maestro Alex Brunsdon.
BBC Upload slogan 'We're getting featured on Upload' Email from BBC advising that my short piece 'Lads On Tour' is going to be featured on the local Upload programme this week.
September 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Airports; one of the circles of hell.
September 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Hogging the airwaves again!
BBC Upload blurb saying 'I'm getting featured on Upload'. Email from BBC Upload advising that my piece 2B Or Not 2B will be aired between 1800 - 2000hrs, 11/09/25
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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An unfortunate juxtaposition of articles
A screengrab of a couple of regional articles from BBC News webpage. First article is about 'Dogs being used to stop sewage entering rivers'. Immediately below that is a link to another article titled 'Team effort to rescue dog stuck in pipe'.
September 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
If you fancy giving my little piece a whirl, it's from 49:40.
Upload with Adam Crowther - Chris Arnold sits in (06/09/2025) - BBC Sounds
Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Occasionally I write and persuade gullible friends to act it out. One of my short monologues is getting airtime later this week. I would be very honoured if you lent it your ears.
BBC banner saying 'I'm getting featured on Upload bbc.co.uk/upload "We're playing your upload 'I've Got A Little List' on BBC Upload with Chris Arnold this week! Your upload will be broadcast at the following times: On Thursday evening on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset between 6-8pm. On Saturday evening on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Wiltshire, BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Radio Somerset between 6-8pm. You can listen on your radio or via the free BBC Sounds app."
September 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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September 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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doorsofdoom.bsky.social
Fairly modern DoD out Bremhill way. Looks kind of neglected; treat these egregious entrances with respect!
House on the left, industrial-style building on the right. Between them a flat-roofed carport. In the wall of the industrial building, approx 18 inches above the carport is a doorway serving absolutely no purpose whatsoever.
August 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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wharfwriters.bsky.social
2600 downloads! Not exactly big league but we're quite proud of our little achievements.
A screenshot from Acast Insights showing all-time downloads at 2600.
August 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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The windows may have been bricked up but the door stands proud. Stay strong, you pointless portal.
The Railway Inn, Station Road, Westbury.
Behind a mini-roundabout stands a tallish stone building (1800s?)with a public house to its right. Every window in the tallish building has been bricked up, yet in the middle of all these, around 12ft off the floor, a black wooden door stands defiant.
July 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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wharfwriters.bsky.social
'Homework'; choose one (or more) from the list:
Two people on a film set
Two characters that personify a spider and a fly
Two characters have gone to see a circus act
A heist gone wrong
Characters in a blackout
Two people meeting up by accident after 50 years

Next meeting 4th August
2/2
July 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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A productive meeting tonight with pieces from the profound to the bizarre (yes, Rob, looking at you...). Also interesting discussions around a short film script that was submitted to the theatre.
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July 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Sometimes, I long for him
Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night. A large title panel declares this character's name: THE TW*T COLLECTOR. He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand. Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure. slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!" There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear". The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.
July 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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wharfwriters.bsky.social
Yay! Over 2500 downloads. Small fry for many but a big milestone for us.
Screengrab of WTC? performance figures, with all-time downloads figure of 2509 circled. Yay! Go us!
July 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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wharfwriters.bsky.social
It's all happening at Elm Grove Studios (or, as we know it, Steve's house). A motley bunch of voice actors have assembled to record The Legend of the Moonrakers, which will be hitting the airwaves soon.
Two chaps sharing a mic reading a script of dubious quality Two ladies sharing a mic and reading the same script of dubious quality. One of them is really giving it some beans. Same two chaps, same mic, same script that hasn't gotten any better A lady making snoring noises into a microphone. Really. This is how we spend our time off at weekends. I've wasted my life...
July 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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wharfwriters.bsky.social
If you missed it, here's the live version of The Legend of the Moonrakers. We put the amateur back into amateur dramatics.
youtu.be/mykDrNzYVac?...
The Legend of the Moonrakers
YouTube video by Wharf Writers' Group
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July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Type 1935 M-class minesweepers M3 & M8 in harbour. Of interest is the rail turntable in the foreground. 69 built, 34 lost in WW2. #navalhistory
At least qty 3 Type 1935 M-class minesweepers of the Kriegsmarine docked alongside each other. Closest to quayside is M8, with M3 alongside it. A group of Kriegsmarine sailors are chatting on the quayside. In the foreground is a rail turntable, allowing trucks to be wheeled alongside.
July 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Hi! I'm back! Sorry for being a bit quiet of late. As a way of an apology, have a collection of Spica class torpedo boats at Naples. The closest two boats, Aldebaran and Altair, were both sunk 20/10/1940 by mines laid by mine-laying sub HMS Rorqual.
What would the collective noun would be?
A lot of Spica class torpedo boats of the Regia Marina lined up, sterns to the quayside, at Naples, post October 1938. There's a lot of Spicas. I mean, there's Spicas as far as the eye can see. I count fourteen but there may be more. They are being reviewed by some blackshirt types on a vessel that is passing by. Boo them. Boo the blackshirts. Boo!!!!
July 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Poster advertising an open day at Whitefriars Sailing Club, Saturday 5th July, 11am to 3pm.
June 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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My monologue 2B Or Not 2B performed by the wonderful Wendy Withers at The Scratch Theatre's 'Scratch Night - Writing Competition Showcase' at The Greenbank, Easton, Bristol, 10/06/25.
I couldn't imagine a more perfect Brenda.
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2B Or Not 2B - A Monologue
YouTube video by John Paul Paradise
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June 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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My monologue Lads On Tour, at Scratch Theatre's 'Scratch Night - Writing Competition Showcase', at The Greenbank, Easton, Bristol, June 10th 2025. Performance by Joshua Hogan, who learned the script in less than a week!

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June 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM