Robert Valentine
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Seems the perfect time to migrate and expand an old Twitter thread of mine about the greatest art heist of the twentieth century...
'INDIANA WHO: CRUSADE OF DEATH!' An adventure in art-theft starring Julian Glover... and Julian Glover.
'INDIANA WHO: CRUSADE OF DEATH!' An adventure in art-theft starring Julian Glover... and Julian Glover.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Never give in to pessimism, folks. I left the house without sunglasses and this was a mistake. 🌧️ ☀️ 🌧️ ☀️
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Never give in to pessimism, folks. I left the house without sunglasses and this was a mistake. 🌧️ ☀️ 🌧️ ☀️
Two weeks until the most wonderful time of the year: the London Fortean Society’s The Haunted Landscape at Conway Hall. 👻 ✨ 📚 💀
Two weeks until The Haunted Ladscape VII: Ghosts, Magic and Folklore
Terrific speakers @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Full details at the following link:
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@icysedgwick.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
Terrific speakers @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Full details at the following link:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
@icysedgwick.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Two weeks until the most wonderful time of the year: the London Fortean Society’s The Haunted Landscape at Conway Hall. 👻 ✨ 📚 💀
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Get unstuck in time with us as we begin Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, a profound novel about war, trauma and plunger-shaped aliens.
New, FREE show! (link in comments)
New, FREE show! (link in comments)
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Get unstuck in time with us as we begin Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, a profound novel about war, trauma and plunger-shaped aliens.
New, FREE show! (link in comments)
New, FREE show! (link in comments)
Good morning, you lot. ☕️
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Good morning, you lot. ☕️
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ANNIVERSARY! 🎉 A selection of new-Who Doctors 2005-2025 in a new audio compilation. Click https://bgfn.sh/1125 to read more and to pre-order for release later this month.
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ANNIVERSARY! 🎉 A selection of new-Who Doctors 2005-2025 in a new audio compilation. Click https://bgfn.sh/1125 to read more and to pre-order for release later this month.
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Celebrate 20 years of New Doctors at @bigfinish.bsky.social
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Big Finish mark 20 years of new Doctors
Big Finish is celebrating 20 years of “new” Doctor Who with a special collection of adventures featuring the new-Who Doctors, available as a single download package. Creative director Nicholas Brig…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Fireworks PIF countdown: number one! HAND (1976) This all-time classic PIF featured bandages that haunted a million nightmares and turned sparklers into something to be feared. It worked on me. Happy Bonfire Night!
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Fireworks PIF countdown: number one! HAND (1976) This all-time classic PIF featured bandages that haunted a million nightmares and turned sparklers into something to be feared. It worked on me. Happy Bonfire Night!
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Other work of the Ladybird artists
‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Other work of the Ladybird artists
‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Bonfire Night’ (1951)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Autumn scene’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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An East Anglian week ahead for Nunkie. There's not much ticket availability, but there're a few left for "A Warning to the Curious" in Felixstowe on Friday tinyurl.com/muffd4ez
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
An East Anglian week ahead for Nunkie. There's not much ticket availability, but there're a few left for "A Warning to the Curious" in Felixstowe on Friday tinyurl.com/muffd4ez
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“Do you want to come back to my place?”
“Yeah, alright.”
“Yeah, alright.”
February 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Do you want to come back to my place?”
“Yeah, alright.”
“Yeah, alright.”
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A wee bit of news to end the year on: I couldn't be happier to share that I'm writing a BFI Film Classics book on Ishiro Honda's original GODZILLA! It'll be published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in 2027 🖤
December 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM
A wee bit of news to end the year on: I couldn't be happier to share that I'm writing a BFI Film Classics book on Ishiro Honda's original GODZILLA! It'll be published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social in 2027 🖤
Result! Thought I’d seen Godzilla: King of the Monsters but I have NOT. 🍿
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Result! Thought I’d seen Godzilla: King of the Monsters but I have NOT. 🍿
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Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer.
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat.
Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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The mighty Edge of Darkness is on BBC4 tonight at 9.15 and also on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
You can get yourself in the mood by watching our video podcast up to the spoiler warning. Lots of stuff about Troy Kennedy Martin and other prime movers behind this fantastic series.
You can get yourself in the mood by watching our video podcast up to the spoiler warning. Lots of stuff about Troy Kennedy Martin and other prime movers behind this fantastic series.
Join us as for our latest episode as we watch Edge of Darkness. Audio version available wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/YShw_4yO03I?...
World of Telly Episode 2: Edge of Darkness
YouTube video by World of Telly
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November 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The mighty Edge of Darkness is on BBC4 tonight at 9.15 and also on iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
You can get yourself in the mood by watching our video podcast up to the spoiler warning. Lots of stuff about Troy Kennedy Martin and other prime movers behind this fantastic series.
You can get yourself in the mood by watching our video podcast up to the spoiler warning. Lots of stuff about Troy Kennedy Martin and other prime movers behind this fantastic series.
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"THE DALEKS" ("TV21" issue 93 (dated 29/10/66)).
#DoctorWho #DrWho #Daleks #comicbook #comicstrip #scifi #1960s
#DoctorWho #DrWho #Daleks #comicbook #comicstrip #scifi #1960s
October 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
"THE DALEKS" ("TV21" issue 93 (dated 29/10/66)).
#DoctorWho #DrWho #Daleks #comicbook #comicstrip #scifi #1960s
#DoctorWho #DrWho #Daleks #comicbook #comicstrip #scifi #1960s
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Happy 1st of November.
Here’s a biscuit tin, designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe
Here’s a biscuit tin, designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Happy 1st of November.
Here’s a biscuit tin, designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe
Here’s a biscuit tin, designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe
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"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases."
November 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases."
Good morning. I just called my toaster ‘Toastie’, so that’s its name now. ☕️
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Good morning. I just called my toaster ‘Toastie’, so that’s its name now. ☕️
Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is unfaithful to its primary source material in exactly the same way that Hammer was always unfaithful to theirs. Which makes it utterly faithful to its secondary source material.
a close up of a person 's face with teeth showing
Alt: Christopher Walken as the Headless Horseman.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is unfaithful to its primary source material in exactly the same way that Hammer was always unfaithful to theirs. Which makes it utterly faithful to its secondary source material.
South Western Railway is the real monster.
October 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
South Western Railway is the real monster.
For Halloween I’m spending the day dressed as Arthur Dent. Same as a lot of the rest of the year, to be honest.
October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
For Halloween I’m spending the day dressed as Arthur Dent. Same as a lot of the rest of the year, to be honest.
Good morning, Pumpkinheads. 🎃
Ghost Coffee GIF
Alt: Ghost drinking coffee.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Good morning, Pumpkinheads. 🎃
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My favorite part of writing is when you feel at a loss, you're not entirely sure what it is yet, but you've got a deadline breathing down your neck, you go into a work-induced fugue state and ALL OF A SUDDEN a bolt of panic inspiration hits you with a brilliant plan AI COULD NEVER REPLICATE THAT
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My favorite part of writing is when you feel at a loss, you're not entirely sure what it is yet, but you've got a deadline breathing down your neck, you go into a work-induced fugue state and ALL OF A SUDDEN a bolt of panic inspiration hits you with a brilliant plan AI COULD NEVER REPLICATE THAT