Excellent words from Attitude magazine. We are governed by bastards who incite murder. @attitudemag @cliffjoannou
Back to work 😱 Work
Today, at work! ♥️ @bad_wolf_tv @bbcdoctorwho @bbciplayer @disneyplus Bad Wolf Studios
I’m in Jeopardy! 😱 @itv @jeopardy @ukjeopardy ITV
Happy New Year’s Eve! And the point is – there, right behind us, that’s one of the sets from the Christmas 2024 episode of Doctor Who! The future! Right there ♥️ But what terrible secrets does it hide..? (etc) @bbcdoctorwho @bbcone @bbciplayer @disneyplus #2024 Bad Wolf Studios
Joel Collins, me, Jane Tranter, Phil Collinson attacked by a Yeti! An original costume from 1968 (the Yeti, not Phil) ♥️♥️➕👹
This was three years ago today! Love that cast ♥️ @channel4 Channel 4
Morning! Mumbles Lighthouse
An absolute honour to be asked on @itvtonight to praise the amazing, life-changing Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, written by the wonderful Gwyneth Hughes and directed by @james.strong ♥️ When the arts are being underfunded and theatres closed, this shows what drama can do 🎭 Thanks to @paulbrandtv @itv @itnproductionstv ITV
Morning! Cardiff Bay
TONIGHT, Men Up, BBC One, written by @mjbarry101, the true story of the world’s first viagra trials, in 1994… held in Swansea! A lovely, funny, complex, heartbreaking script, with Wales’s finest in the cast. An absolute joy. (Okay, Nolly Ep.3 is on ITV at the same time, but you can catch up on ITVX!) @bbc @bbcone @bbciplayer @quaystreetproductions ♥️
All Saints’ Church, Mumbles
Mumbles lighthouse ♥️ Mumbles Lighthouse
TONIGHT on Nolly, ITV 9pm, Benny and Miss Diane have to cope with a mysterious intruder 😳 @lloydgriffith @thechloeharris @itv @itvxofficial @quaystreetproductions ♥️
The Mumbles lighthouse Mumbles Pier
Yahoo! Well done Monica!Thanks bradderswalsh @itvchase ♥️ ITV
January 2015! ♥️ Manchester
Night sky ♥️ Mumbles
THIS on ITV & ITVX. A gorgeous, brittle, sharp, hilarious comedy drama about the most unlikely couple, brought together by chance, accident and this terrible, terrible world. So funny, even as it makes you ache. A hidden gem in a noisy schedule, you’ll love these two. The most glorious cast, Katherine Parkinson & @youssefkerkourofficial, cast by @ri_mcd written by @danafainaru2014 & @hwright3766, directed by David Sant ♥️ @quaystreetproductions
Danny and Guy have been friends for 20 years, and head off into Manchester Pride together… except Danny wants more than friendship. Is it time to tell the truth? This is lovely, funny, kind and truthful. Manchester is described so well, this book walks past my house twice! And depictions of Pride are vivid and hilarious: “Danny passes a group of men in matching gold hot pants who are mixing themselves mimosas from supermarket value-brand cava and cartons of Capri-Sun.” I was expecting a simple will-they-won’t-they but it’s wiser than that, laced with generations of gay shame, and heading towards a more contemporary ending, challenging who we are, and why, and how we can change. A lovely book.
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“It is interesting how people endure things.” Lucy Barton is taken out of New York to escape the pandemic, and discovers a new life with ex-husband William. The third Lucy Barton novel, and the first proper Covid novel I’ve read – no, come back! It’s amazing how much I’d forgotten about those days and fascinating to see it laid out so clearly. Lucy’s voice is a miracle of precision and understatement, sometimes certain, sometimes trembling with doubt, and there’s a real joy in this as love floods into her life once more. But Elizabeth Strout has always kept an eye on the wider world – the fact that Lucy was born in poverty is never forgotten – and a new fear edges into this. The fear of November 2024. I finished this book weeks ago, and it’s haunted me ever since; Lucy sees things with a frightening insight. A brilliant, vital book.
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“What I am trying to say is that for a few minutes I had what almost felt like a vision: that there was a deep, deep unrest in the country and that the whispering of a civil war seemed to move around me like a breeze I could not quite feel but could sense. We got our ice cream and we left, and I told William what I had felt and he said, ‘I know.’”
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Desert Island Discs Live! I’m on March 27. Honoured to be invited! ♥️ @laurenlaverne London Palladium
The life of Roland Baines, passing though history – from the Cuban missile crisis to Covid – all the while haunted by memories and wondering who he is. The range and density of this is extraordinary, it feels like an entire life being lived. Like memory, it slides in time, back and forth, even vaulting into the stories of parents and grandparents. But everything keeps circling back to young Roland and his piano teacher, and the abuse that leads him to live “an unchosen life.” A powerful combination of history and experience, which turns away from anger and finds compassion and forgiveness instead.
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“When he asked himself if he wished none of it had happened he did not have a ready answer. That was the nature of the harm.“
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