Roy Gill
@roygill.bsky.social
Writes things, sometimes involving a blue box. Likes books, dogs and vinyl 🏳️🌈
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Roy Gill
@roygill.bsky.social
· Sep 19
The Eighth Doctor v Zygons! 📣 Click https://bgfn.sh/8zygons to read all about December's forthcoming adventure. 📣 Paul McGann! 📣 Nicola Walker! 📣 Hattie Morahan! 📣 It's about time!
Really happy to say I have a new Doctor Who audio adventure in this set, out in December - “Lure of the Zygons”! Mysterious Spaceships and Shapeshifting Monsters! 2 parts/2 hours! I hope you’ll give it a listen…
I think I'd like to chuck "lambent" into the fire along with "luminous" as frequently used but empty descriptions of new (usually lit fiction) books*
(*presumably those that sit on your bedside cabinet, as yet unread, but faintly glowing)
(*presumably those that sit on your bedside cabinet, as yet unread, but faintly glowing)
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I think I'd like to chuck "lambent" into the fire along with "luminous" as frequently used but empty descriptions of new (usually lit fiction) books*
(*presumably those that sit on your bedside cabinet, as yet unread, but faintly glowing)
(*presumably those that sit on your bedside cabinet, as yet unread, but faintly glowing)
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Episode one of Samuel Barnett’s Unknown — our weekly bonkers investigative podcast — is available to listen to NOW!
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Episode one of Samuel Barnett’s Unknown — our weekly bonkers investigative podcast — is available to listen to NOW!
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Floella Benjamin for DG.
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Floella Benjamin for DG.
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My BBC DG manifesto.
1. CBeebies and CBBC to get two hours on BBC1, from 4 to 6pm so old people get to see something that isn’t about property or tat in the attic. Because not everything has a price, Auntie Joan.
1. CBeebies and CBBC to get two hours on BBC1, from 4 to 6pm so old people get to see something that isn’t about property or tat in the attic. Because not everything has a price, Auntie Joan.
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My BBC DG manifesto.
1. CBeebies and CBBC to get two hours on BBC1, from 4 to 6pm so old people get to see something that isn’t about property or tat in the attic. Because not everything has a price, Auntie Joan.
1. CBeebies and CBBC to get two hours on BBC1, from 4 to 6pm so old people get to see something that isn’t about property or tat in the attic. Because not everything has a price, Auntie Joan.
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Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Jesus fucken Christ. I ordered some undercrackers, lads. Nothing came. No despatch email, no delivery confirmation, nothing.
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
So today I check tracking online. Evri "delivered" them to my side garden (just chucked randomly).
AND THEN THE FOXES
THE FOXES
(breathe)
ATE
MY
FUCKEN
PANTS
Watching the new B7 documentary. Oh my goodness, Claire Lewis (talking about Zil) is a delight! 😁😍
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Watching the new B7 documentary. Oh my goodness, Claire Lewis (talking about Zil) is a delight! 😁😍
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Love these Record Player Christmas Tree Decorations!
One for the #Vinyl fans!
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One for the #Vinyl fans!
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John Lewis Heirloom Splendour Vinyl Record Player Tree Decoration
Buy John Lewis Heirloom Splendour Vinyl Record Player Tree Decoration from our Baubles & Tree Decorations range at John Lewis & Partners. Free Delivery on orders over £70.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Love these Record Player Christmas Tree Decorations!
One for the #Vinyl fans!
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One for the #Vinyl fans!
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Which of commentaries on the Blake’s 7 s2 BluRay set are new, please?
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Which of commentaries on the Blake’s 7 s2 BluRay set are new, please?
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Thinking about del Toro’s Frankenstein, and about how excited Universal’s Dark Universe made me before that remake of The Mummy broke it… and why not just give it to him? Give del Toro the whole Dark Universe. The del Toro Gothic Monsterverse.
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Thinking about del Toro’s Frankenstein, and about how excited Universal’s Dark Universe made me before that remake of The Mummy broke it… and why not just give it to him? Give del Toro the whole Dark Universe. The del Toro Gothic Monsterverse.
Blake’s 7: Redemption
That Avon / Blake power dynamic
That Avon / Blake power dynamic
November 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Blake’s 7: Redemption
That Avon / Blake power dynamic
That Avon / Blake power dynamic
Started the Blake’s 7 s2 Blu-Ray. The second half of Redemption has never been my favourite, but the new SFX does great work making the Alta’s world a more cohesive environment.
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Started the Blake’s 7 s2 Blu-Ray. The second half of Redemption has never been my favourite, but the new SFX does great work making the Alta’s world a more cohesive environment.
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Just listened to JODRELL BANK AT 80 from Radio 4 (now on BBC Sounds).
This is a *wonderful* prog celebrating JB & Bernard Lovell, with fab interviews & archive stuff.
Hannah Peel is a great presenter, suitably awestruck by the telescope, & her specially-written piece is hauntingly beautiful...
This is a *wonderful* prog celebrating JB & Bernard Lovell, with fab interviews & archive stuff.
Hannah Peel is a great presenter, suitably awestruck by the telescope, & her specially-written piece is hauntingly beautiful...
Archive on 4 - Jodrell Bank at 80 - BBC Sounds
Brilliant stories told using archive from the BBC and beyond
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just listened to JODRELL BANK AT 80 from Radio 4 (now on BBC Sounds).
This is a *wonderful* prog celebrating JB & Bernard Lovell, with fab interviews & archive stuff.
Hannah Peel is a great presenter, suitably awestruck by the telescope, & her specially-written piece is hauntingly beautiful...
This is a *wonderful* prog celebrating JB & Bernard Lovell, with fab interviews & archive stuff.
Hannah Peel is a great presenter, suitably awestruck by the telescope, & her specially-written piece is hauntingly beautiful...
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You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
You should come back to Twitter instead of staying in a liberal echo chamber
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He's so cool
Guillermo del Toro refused to use VFX for the ship in 'Frankenstein' so they built one from scratch ⚓️
"The ship is a character ... I didn't want the audience to go, 'Oh, this is all digital' ... once you introduce that, it's like a license for people not to believe things"
"The ship is a character ... I didn't want the audience to go, 'Oh, this is all digital' ... once you introduce that, it's like a license for people not to believe things"
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
He's so cool
Watching Frankenstein. Thoroughly enjoying the lush imagery and gothic melodrama - and spotting the Edinburgh locations! And surely that’s the Wallace monument in Stirling providing some of the imagery for the Baron’s water tower…?
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Watching Frankenstein. Thoroughly enjoying the lush imagery and gothic melodrama - and spotting the Edinburgh locations! And surely that’s the Wallace monument in Stirling providing some of the imagery for the Baron’s water tower…?
Really happy to see Counting Crows’ second album Recovering the Satellites is finally getting a vinyl re-release (so I’ll be able to sob along to ‘a Long December’ IN December…)
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Really happy to see Counting Crows’ second album Recovering the Satellites is finally getting a vinyl re-release (so I’ll be able to sob along to ‘a Long December’ IN December…)
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On the off chance anyone finds themselves short of an actor last minute for pantos (especially in Glasgow or the Central Belt of Scotland), I am VERY available and very good at learning lines REALLY quickly.
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
On the off chance anyone finds themselves short of an actor last minute for pantos (especially in Glasgow or the Central Belt of Scotland), I am VERY available and very good at learning lines REALLY quickly.
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NEW RELEASE - OUT TODAY
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN
Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes in 2022, Average Romp presents two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN.
averageromp.com
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN
Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes in 2022, Average Romp presents two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN.
averageromp.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW RELEASE - OUT TODAY
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN
Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes in 2022, Average Romp presents two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN.
averageromp.com
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN
Following the critically-acclaimed release of The Chimes in 2022, Average Romp presents two more full-cast adaptations of Charles Dickens’ Christmas stories; THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH & THE HAUNTED MAN.
averageromp.com
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Well this is exciting!
The New Series of THE CELLAR CLUB is coming soon... Let #CarolineMunro give you a glimpse of the chills coming you way, including THE OMEGA FACTOR and a host of chillers.
Starts Friday 5th December 9pm only on #TalkingPicturesTV
Starts Friday 5th December 9pm only on #TalkingPicturesTV
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Well this is exciting!
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
Was reading DWM’s fascinating Susan / Carole Ann Ford feature and woke up with the phrase
‘Findooclare’s Crospy Pancooks’
…going round my head
‘Findooclare’s Crospy Pancooks’
…going round my head
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Was reading DWM’s fascinating Susan / Carole Ann Ford feature and woke up with the phrase
‘Findooclare’s Crospy Pancooks’
…going round my head
‘Findooclare’s Crospy Pancooks’
…going round my head
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An unexpected wee bit of loveliness for Children In Need. What a nice surprise. Thank you Sophie, and all involved.
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
An unexpected wee bit of loveliness for Children In Need. What a nice surprise. Thank you Sophie, and all involved.
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A tiny bit of the BBC news piece that’s gone out today ✨🔭
The documentary and full piece is now on BBC Sounds & also airs on BBCR4 tomorrow (8th Nov) at 8pm
Featuring the brilliant @proftimob.bsky.social at @jodrellbank.bsky.social
#JodrellAt80 #JodrellBank
The documentary and full piece is now on BBC Sounds & also airs on BBCR4 tomorrow (8th Nov) at 8pm
Featuring the brilliant @proftimob.bsky.social at @jodrellbank.bsky.social
#JodrellAt80 #JodrellBank
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A tiny bit of the BBC news piece that’s gone out today ✨🔭
The documentary and full piece is now on BBC Sounds & also airs on BBCR4 tomorrow (8th Nov) at 8pm
Featuring the brilliant @proftimob.bsky.social at @jodrellbank.bsky.social
#JodrellAt80 #JodrellBank
The documentary and full piece is now on BBC Sounds & also airs on BBCR4 tomorrow (8th Nov) at 8pm
Featuring the brilliant @proftimob.bsky.social at @jodrellbank.bsky.social
#JodrellAt80 #JodrellBank
Off to test Husband’s Spanish* by seeing how many Tori Amos Little Earthquakes tracks he recognises
*he doesn’t know any, but he does know Tori, and he does know me, so I’m expecting a good strike rate
*he doesn’t know any, but he does know Tori, and he does know me, so I’m expecting a good strike rate
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Off to test Husband’s Spanish* by seeing how many Tori Amos Little Earthquakes tracks he recognises
*he doesn’t know any, but he does know Tori, and he does know me, so I’m expecting a good strike rate
*he doesn’t know any, but he does know Tori, and he does know me, so I’m expecting a good strike rate