Also posting BBC history things here as bbcentury.bsky.social, so follow that too, or don’t. And breathe.
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LATE BLACK FRIDAY+ DEAL!
Book my solo stand-up show for YOUR-YES-YOUR venue in 2026 + save a whopping 20% on the arbitrary £ we discuss to begin with.
Yes, 20%! Or more! Haggle! I don't mind.
My diary + DMs are open.
Ep 109 of The British Broadcasting Century
Reith to Davie: 17 BBC Directors General - with Dr Tom Mills (@tommills.bsky.social)
From Oct 1923 (Reith asks both PM and King on the air; both refuse) to Nov 2025 (Davie's resignation) via Milne, Birt & co
Hear here:
pod.fo/e/35c09b
Ep 109 of The British Broadcasting Century
Reith to Davie: 17 BBC Directors General - with Dr Tom Mills (@tommills.bsky.social)
From Oct 1923 (Reith asks both PM and King on the air; both refuse) to Nov 2025 (Davie's resignation) via Milne, Birt & co
Hear here:
pod.fo/e/35c09b
Chatted to many fine folks: bishops, rabbis, Scott Mills, R2 boss Helen and dozens more!
I was delighted to be asked to do a history of 75 years of the God slot on Radio 2/Light Programme too...
Chatted to many fine folks: bishops, rabbis, Scott Mills, R2 boss Helen and dozens more!
I was delighted to be asked to do a history of 75 years of the God slot on Radio 2/Light Programme too...
Ep 108 is our latest then: a full fab cast re-enactment of a lost 1925 broadcast - a bizarre celebrity attempt at telepathy.
Catch it if y'aven't:
pod.fo/e/350fce
Ep 108 is our latest then: a full fab cast re-enactment of a lost 1925 broadcast - a bizarre celebrity attempt at telepathy.
Catch it if y'aven't:
pod.fo/e/350fce
Tue 9 Dec
Tue 16
Thu 18 (London only)
Tue 23
Discount available due to late notice, though I'm sure folks are hungry for festive fun-times...
Want info? Send a letter up your chimney/email me.
Tue 9 Dec
Tue 16
Thu 18 (London only)
Tue 23
Discount available due to late notice, though I'm sure folks are hungry for festive fun-times...
Want info? Send a letter up your chimney/email me.
Anyone fancy it?
careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Director...
Anyone fancy it?
careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Director...
...and I honestly think without the patrons & matrons who've supported there, this research wouldn't have happened & the drama wouldn't have happened. So thanks!
(£5/mth, all helps buy books etc... which have led to this radio drama! So thanks all who support there)
www.patreon.com/posts/vid-tr...
...and I honestly think without the patrons & matrons who've supported there, this research wouldn't have happened & the drama wouldn't have happened. So thanks!
This Christmas Eve, 2:15pm, BBC Radio 4, a drama I've written - 'The Truth about Phyllis Twigg' - will inform, educate and entertain about the first ever radio drama! 103 years later to the day.
If you like this classy image, you should see our cast...
This Christmas Eve, 2:15pm, BBC Radio 4, a drama I've written - 'The Truth about Phyllis Twigg' - will inform, educate and entertain about the first ever radio drama! 103 years later to the day.
If you like this classy image, you should see our cast...
Our centenary dramatisation of a bizarre lost broadcast - so how authentic was it?
My latest Substack: paulkerensa.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-m...
(+ listen to the re-enactment: pod.fo/e/350fce)
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.wholelottacomedy.com
www.wholelottacomedy.com
+ I now a few gaps: Wed 3, Tue 9, Wed 10, Tue 15 or Thu 18 (London only) Dec... if you'd like a Christmas comedy show at yours?
+ I now a few gaps: Wed 3, Tue 9, Wed 10, Tue 15 or Thu 18 (London only) Dec... if you'd like a Christmas comedy show at yours?
I'm sure that what the BBC could be is always > than what it is. Its goals are immense + often unachievable. But 1000s of staff do what they can to get it there.
And I've loved delving into how it began...
(...well, I hope it's happy)
Here are our podcasts on:
🎙️ How it began: tiny.cc/bbcentury037
📻 Its first day (inc re-enactment) - 14 Nov 1922: tiny.cc/bbcentury018
🔊100 years in 100 minutes: tiny.cc/bbcentury057
Thanks for so much, Beeb.
Here's to the next, er, 103 years?
I'm sure that what the BBC could be is always > than what it is. Its goals are immense + often unachievable. But 1000s of staff do what they can to get it there.
And I've loved delving into how it began...
These are celebs who've confirmed they were approached but turned it down...
Miriam Margolyes
Richard Osman
Alastair Campbell
Rory Stewart
Karren Brady
Lorraine Kelly
Daisy May Cooper
Charlie Cooper
Ricky Gervais
Martin Lewis
These are celebs who've confirmed they were approached but turned it down...
Miriam Margolyes
Richard Osman
Alastair Campbell
Rory Stewart
Karren Brady
Lorraine Kelly
Daisy May Cooper
Charlie Cooper
Ricky Gervais
Martin Lewis
12 Nov 1925 saw a bizarre broadcast:
'Mass Telepathy: An Experiment in Thought Reading In which every listener will be invited to assist'
We're recreating it on the podcast.
Subscribe to get it, free:
podfollow.com/bbcentury
A dramatic centenary re-enactment of an odd lost broadcast...
On 12 Nov 1925, a celebrity panel tried to read the minds of BBC listeners. It was a disaster.
On 12 Nov 2025, we dramatise it, based on newspaper articles.
Enjoy! We did. Hic.
bbcentury.podbean.com/e/108-mass-t...
On 12 Nov 1925 a celeb panel in a fancy hotel enjoyed wine + a gothic parlour game. The Celebrity Traitors of 1925!
On 12 Nov 2025 we re-enact 'An Evening of Mass Telepathy'.
Enjoy!
pod.fo/e/350fce
On 12 Nov 1925 a celeb panel in a fancy hotel enjoyed wine + a gothic parlour game. The Celebrity Traitors of 1925!
On 12 Nov 2025 we re-enact 'An Evening of Mass Telepathy'.
Enjoy!
pod.fo/e/350fce
www.chortle.co.uk/punching-ups....
www.chortle.co.uk/punching-ups....
Subscribe here, and it'll be yours as soon as it lands...
podfollow.com/bbcentury
12 Nov 1925 saw a bizarre broadcast:
'Mass Telepathy: An Experiment in Thought Reading In which every listener will be invited to assist'
We're recreating it on the podcast.
Subscribe to get it, free:
podfollow.com/bbcentury
Subscribe here, and it'll be yours as soon as it lands...
podfollow.com/bbcentury
Who Let the DGs Out? The 17 BBC Directors-General... (as Tim Davie prepares to regenerate into the 18th)
Including the role of Panorama in making/breaking DGs... and a GREAT joke about the only joint Directors-General.
Here for you:
open.substack.com/pub/paulkere...
Who Let the DGs Out? The 17 BBC Directors-General... (as Tim Davie prepares to regenerate into the 18th)
Including the role of Panorama in making/breaking DGs... and a GREAT joke about the only joint Directors-General.
Here for you:
open.substack.com/pub/paulkere...
x 19 players = £760k total
£1.5m = Nigel Farage's reported fee for I'm a Celebrity 2023
so
£Balding+Beaumont+Bonnar+Burns+Carr+Church+Codd+Daley+Empson+Faith+Fry+Garraway+Imrie+Marler+Mohammed+Omilana+Olusoga+Ross+Wilkinson = 1/2 £Farage
x 19 players = £760k total
£1.5m = Nigel Farage's reported fee for I'm a Celebrity 2023
so
£Balding+Beaumont+Bonnar+Burns+Carr+Church+Codd+Daley+Empson+Faith+Fry+Garraway+Imrie+Marler+Mohammed+Omilana+Olusoga+Ross+Wilkinson = 1/2 £Farage
This weekend (comedy clubs, with other acts):
Fri 7 - Southern Maltings, WARE
Sat 8 - Riverside Arts, SUNBURY
Next weekend (church solo shows):
Fri 14 - St Boniface, BUNBURY nr Chester
Sat 15 - ASHBOURNE Elim, Derbyshire
Do come out to play
paulkerensa.com/gigguide
This weekend (comedy clubs, with other acts):
Fri 7 - Southern Maltings, WARE
Sat 8 - Riverside Arts, SUNBURY
Next weekend (church solo shows):
Fri 14 - St Boniface, BUNBURY nr Chester
Sat 15 - ASHBOURNE Elim, Derbyshire
Do come out to play
paulkerensa.com/gigguide