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Tom Morton-Smith

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Tom Morton-Smith

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You’re very welcome, Ceinwen Patridge of Newport. 😊 (from the letters page of the current @radiotimes.bsky.social).

NO WEASEL WORDS
Thank you so much, writer Tom Morton-Smith and Radio 4, for their delightful, refreshing take on Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
(16 November). I was having a bad day, sat down and listened to A Weasel's Tale, sensitively narrated by Penelope Wilton, and was immediately elevated to a happy place. The Wind in the Willows is my all-time favourite book and, thanks to Tom Morton-Smith, it keeps on giving.
Ceinwen Partridge Newport, Gwent

November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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Gavin from above. #caturday

November 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM

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A mixed week, but by no means a bad one:

The Fantastic 4: First Steps (2025)
Buddha Mountain (2010)
Frankenstein (2025)
The BFG (2016)

November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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My radio play, a variation on The Wind in the Willows, is a Pick of the Week in the current edition of @radiotimes.bsky.social. Listen at 3pm Sunday on BBC Radio 4.

The Wind in the Willows: a Weasel's Tale Sun 3pm Radio 4
It's a brave move to reinterpret such a family classic and dramatist Tom Morton-Smith is to be congratulated for making this work so well. Told from the point of view of a young weasel, this honours the spirit of the novel while bringing prescient insight on what it means to be seen as an interloper from a lower class. With Penelope Wilton as the narrator, this is top notch.

November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM

Tom Morton-Smith

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Genuinely saddened to hear of the death of Tatsuya Nakadai - a remarkable actor with an incredible career. One of the finest screen actors of the 20th century with an incomparable filmography.

A still from Masaki Kobayashi’s masterpiece The Human Condition: No Greater Love (1959).

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1969), dir: Mikio Naruse.

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970).

November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Tom Morton-Smith

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My five year old wanted me to draw him a vampire he could colour in, so I drew him this Nosferatu.

A badly drawn Nosferatu, coloured in by a child.

November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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Seven years.

Looking across the estuary of the River Dee.

October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM

Tom Morton-Smith

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I spent the last couple of years pitching a stage adaptation of László Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance, but no one picked it up. Just putting it back out there now he’s got a Nobel.

A black and white image of a man in a black hat and coat staring into the massive eye of a dead whale. A still from Bela Tar’s Werckmeister Harmonies, which is an adaptation of László Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance.

October 10, 2025 at 8:09 AM

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I managed to go to a theatre and see a play! Well bloody (ha) done @mogster.bsky.social. 🧛🏻‍♂️

The proscenium arch of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre. Raggedy curtains projected with the word ‘Dracula’.

October 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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Adventures in vintage Lego: siege tower.

September 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM

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The kid is asleep, my better half is out for the night - time to dust off the projector, the big screen and the super long hdmi cable. It’s Zatoichi time.