Michael Wadding
@waddo100.bsky.social
Producer and director of documentaries🎥. Sounds, music and images. Transport, travel and trains. Based in Kent. Proud Teessider.
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“I didn’t have rich parents, a childhood bedroom to return to or an infatuated billionaire intent on marrying me. Either writing had to make me money or I couldn’t do it. “
I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy.
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I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy.
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Please sir can I have some more
On making a living as a writer
substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
“I didn’t have rich parents, a childhood bedroom to return to or an infatuated billionaire intent on marrying me. Either writing had to make me money or I couldn’t do it. “
I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I wrote about making a living from writing in the new economy.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Paddington is now the mythical figure who accompanies British celebrities into the afterlife.
As a nation, we obviously decided we didn’t want a symbol of tolerance for vulnerable immigrants, and found the lad another job.
As a nation, we obviously decided we didn’t want a symbol of tolerance for vulnerable immigrants, and found the lad another job.
February 1, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Paddington is now the mythical figure who accompanies British celebrities into the afterlife.
As a nation, we obviously decided we didn’t want a symbol of tolerance for vulnerable immigrants, and found the lad another job.
As a nation, we obviously decided we didn’t want a symbol of tolerance for vulnerable immigrants, and found the lad another job.
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I know most of you never go outside but it’s worth looking up at the moon and Venus tonight and pretending you’re a cave person.
January 31, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I know most of you never go outside but it’s worth looking up at the moon and Venus tonight and pretending you’re a cave person.
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Farewell to the great Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026).
Each generation remembers her for something different, the true mark of an enduring talent. #FilmSky
Each generation remembers her for something different, the true mark of an enduring talent. #FilmSky
January 31, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Farewell to the great Catherine O'Hara (1954-2026).
Each generation remembers her for something different, the true mark of an enduring talent. #FilmSky
Each generation remembers her for something different, the true mark of an enduring talent. #FilmSky
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SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 PM
SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods.
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
S1: archive.org/details/sctv...
S2: archive.org/details/sctv...
S3: archive.org/details/19-m...
S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s...
S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky
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Do you want to know if you can watch a film on the BBC tonight?
IS THERE'S A FILM ON THE BBC AROUND 9PM TONIGHT?
A simple way to see if there’s a film on the BBC around 9pm tonight.
istheresafilmonthebbcaround9pmtonight.robmanuel.workers.dev
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Do you want to know if you can watch a film on the BBC tonight?
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Northern Trains to run class 158 from Darlington to the Weardale Railway on Sunday, 22 February.
It will call at stations, including Newton Aycliffe, Shildon, Bishop Auckland West and Stanhope. Tickets now on sale at £25.
media.northernrailway.co.uk/news/a-very-...
It will call at stations, including Newton Aycliffe, Shildon, Bishop Auckland West and Stanhope. Tickets now on sale at £25.
media.northernrailway.co.uk/news/a-very-...
'A rare opportunity': Northern will run service along heritage railway line for the first time and tickets are now on sale | Northern News
Northern will run a service along a heritage railway line for the first time, to raise money for charity.
media.northernrailway.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Northern Trains to run class 158 from Darlington to the Weardale Railway on Sunday, 22 February.
It will call at stations, including Newton Aycliffe, Shildon, Bishop Auckland West and Stanhope. Tickets now on sale at £25.
media.northernrailway.co.uk/news/a-very-...
It will call at stations, including Newton Aycliffe, Shildon, Bishop Auckland West and Stanhope. Tickets now on sale at £25.
media.northernrailway.co.uk/news/a-very-...
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I really like how major developments come with an assessment by archeologists in the UK.
Good read on finds along the HS2 route.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good read on finds along the HS2 route.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 30, 2026 at 9:22 AM
I really like how major developments come with an assessment by archeologists in the UK.
Good read on finds along the HS2 route.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good read on finds along the HS2 route.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Love this. Someone make it next year’s BBC Christmas special.
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Love this. Someone make it next year’s BBC Christmas special.
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Yeah? Off you fuck.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Yeah? Off you fuck.
History documentaries without any of the tiresome people who need to film them … sad day 😏🎥
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM
History documentaries without any of the tiresome people who need to film them … sad day 😏🎥
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Good news, #Hamburg 🌙🚆
From 13 July 2026, our Paris–Berlin #nighttrain will also stop in Hamburg. A new city to board in the evening, or wake up to in the morning.
With easy onward rail links, Scandinavia is now closer than ever.
🎟️ Bookings are open
👉 www.europeansleeper.eu/hamburg
From 13 July 2026, our Paris–Berlin #nighttrain will also stop in Hamburg. A new city to board in the evening, or wake up to in the morning.
With easy onward rail links, Scandinavia is now closer than ever.
🎟️ Bookings are open
👉 www.europeansleeper.eu/hamburg
January 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Good news, #Hamburg 🌙🚆
From 13 July 2026, our Paris–Berlin #nighttrain will also stop in Hamburg. A new city to board in the evening, or wake up to in the morning.
With easy onward rail links, Scandinavia is now closer than ever.
🎟️ Bookings are open
👉 www.europeansleeper.eu/hamburg
From 13 July 2026, our Paris–Berlin #nighttrain will also stop in Hamburg. A new city to board in the evening, or wake up to in the morning.
With easy onward rail links, Scandinavia is now closer than ever.
🎟️ Bookings are open
👉 www.europeansleeper.eu/hamburg
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Jean-Paul Sartre died in 1980. Incredible to think he may have seen the film “Every Which Way But Loose”.
January 27, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Happy 100th birthday, television.
January 26, 2026 at 9:49 AM
🥳
This sounds both brilliant and heart wrenching.
"Hilarious, heartbreaking...an astonishing record of an extraordinary life" (@theguardian.com).
ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT is in cinemas 6 February.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT is in cinemas 6 February.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
‘It was a little scary at times’: the hilarious, heartbreaking film about one man’s riotous death
When André Ricciardi found out he had cancer, he asked a friend to film his final years. André Is an Idiot, the result, mixes in stop-motion puppetry to create an astonishing record of an extraordinar...
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:48 AM
This sounds both brilliant and heart wrenching.
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Watched Sinners again, and it’s way more enjoyable when you know that it knows where it’s going.
January 25, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Watched Sinners again, and it’s way more enjoyable when you know that it knows where it’s going.
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Trump has made the case for rejoining the EU impossible to ignore
✏️ @carolinelucas.bsky.social & Dominic Grieve
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✏️ @carolinelucas.bsky.social & Dominic Grieve
▶️ buff.ly/mQjdkAz
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Trump has made the case for rejoining the EU impossible to ignore
✏️ @carolinelucas.bsky.social & Dominic Grieve
▶️ buff.ly/mQjdkAz
✏️ @carolinelucas.bsky.social & Dominic Grieve
▶️ buff.ly/mQjdkAz
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The Unsettling (2021)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Oil and acrylic on canvas
January 23, 2026 at 8:50 AM
The Unsettling (2021)
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Oil and acrylic on canvas
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Recorded on a grey cold day like today. This was one of our most extreme records. We got absolutely drenched!
Episode 153 - Freezing January rain under Britain's highest pylon (23min)
Sharp winter rain. Drops gathered on metal above, falling heavier through the hum
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-k4c7y-...
Episode 153 - Freezing January rain under Britain's highest pylon (23min)
Sharp winter rain. Drops gathered on metal above, falling heavier through the hum
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-k4c7y-...
January 22, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Recorded on a grey cold day like today. This was one of our most extreme records. We got absolutely drenched!
Episode 153 - Freezing January rain under Britain's highest pylon (23min)
Sharp winter rain. Drops gathered on metal above, falling heavier through the hum
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-k4c7y-...
Episode 153 - Freezing January rain under Britain's highest pylon (23min)
Sharp winter rain. Drops gathered on metal above, falling heavier through the hum
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-k4c7y-...
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"A perfect film...so engaging, unpredictable, funny, and thought provoking." - Letterboxd
Watch I DON'T FEEL AT HOME ANYWHERE ANYMORE: www.truestory.film/i-dont-feel-...
Watch I DON'T FEEL AT HOME ANYWHERE ANYMORE: www.truestory.film/i-dont-feel-...
I Don't Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore - True Story
Thirty-year-old Viv Li is studying art in Belgium and hasn’t lived in her native China for ten years. During the Christmas holidays, she pays a nine-day visit to her family in Beijing, where it soon…
www.truestory.film
January 22, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"A perfect film...so engaging, unpredictable, funny, and thought provoking." - Letterboxd
Watch I DON'T FEEL AT HOME ANYWHERE ANYMORE: www.truestory.film/i-dont-feel-...
Watch I DON'T FEEL AT HOME ANYWHERE ANYMORE: www.truestory.film/i-dont-feel-...
Oh no - please tell me he didn’t say this? 🤦🏻♂️
Trump in Davos, Switzerland:
"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
"Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Oh no - please tell me he didn’t say this? 🤦🏻♂️
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It really is some Emperor's New Clothes shit that all the leaders have to sit there and pretend this isn't more embarrassing than a child wetting itself in a nativity play. "Oh, yes, insightful point, yes, witty remark, and that isn't a pool of urine forming at his feet, oh no..."
January 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM
It really is some Emperor's New Clothes shit that all the leaders have to sit there and pretend this isn't more embarrassing than a child wetting itself in a nativity play. "Oh, yes, insightful point, yes, witty remark, and that isn't a pool of urine forming at his feet, oh no..."
This is hilarious … and uncanny 😬🤣
January 21, 2026 at 2:56 PM
This is hilarious … and uncanny 😬🤣
Another thread from Joel that is bang on.
Wanted to watch three big, classic old TV shows last night (two for fun one for work). None was available on any streaming platform. Two of them, I have on physical media. The other, more recent, exists as a paid digital download, but can’t be bought physically in the UK. That’s not good.
January 21, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Another thread from Joel that is bang on.
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For future biographers, here's what was used on Library Music, which you can pre-order now on my Bandcamp page (smoooooth plug dude):
BFD3 drums
Fender Jaguar bass
Harley Benton DC Junior
Fender Jaguar guitar
NI Session Percussionist
NI Session Strings
UAD Electra 88
UAD Moog model D
BFD3 drums
Fender Jaguar bass
Harley Benton DC Junior
Fender Jaguar guitar
NI Session Percussionist
NI Session Strings
UAD Electra 88
UAD Moog model D
Library Music, by Darren Riley
14 track album
ballardpop.bandcamp.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:26 PM
For future biographers, here's what was used on Library Music, which you can pre-order now on my Bandcamp page (smoooooth plug dude):
BFD3 drums
Fender Jaguar bass
Harley Benton DC Junior
Fender Jaguar guitar
NI Session Percussionist
NI Session Strings
UAD Electra 88
UAD Moog model D
BFD3 drums
Fender Jaguar bass
Harley Benton DC Junior
Fender Jaguar guitar
NI Session Percussionist
NI Session Strings
UAD Electra 88
UAD Moog model D