told a guy we should cuddle and watch SATANTANGO

Years on, this still continues to astonish me.

On BBC Radio 3 this afternoon - great music for great screen lives - Winehouse, Liberace, Zuckerberg, Joseph Merrick, Jackie Kennedy, Princess Di. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Our second week of BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4! Give it a go, it’s your sort of thing.

Mandy and Lola are as great as Hancock and Sid. Their self pity is limitless. They’d betray each other instantly. If they were real they’d both be in jail. But somehow you love them and always root for them. Immortals!

A guy came up to me in the interval of tonight's concert, in tears, saying he'd waited 50 years to hear Mathias' Harp Concerto. 'Was it worth the wait?' I asked. 'Yes, like you wouldn't believe.' A stunning performance by Catrin Finch
and BBC NOW. 📻 Broadcast soon on BBC Radio 3.

I used to work in this very space and still get flashbacks to the annual stocktake.

Just getting ready for tonight’s discussion about Plato/live Scrabble game. BBC Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm. Players: Kate Maltby Sophie Grace Chappell Takeshi Morisato Dorian Lynskey. We’ll also deal with all the subjects on the board. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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Catch Professor of Philosophy Sophie Grace Chappell live on BBC Free Thinking tonight at 21:00, discussing 'Change' with Matthew Sweet

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I was a young woman, newly married at the time. And realise now how the whole experience has marked me. Proud now to be a trustee of the Centre for Women's Justice Centre for Women's Justice which tries to get the law to tackle male violence against women.

Put it in the National Portrait Gallery NOW

Interesting. I wonder if this will be a moment to lose some of the MPs on the staff, since their work is the most likely source of further regulatory breaches?

This week's Substack:

Three Thinking

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I better think of some …

On being under 25

Cast Announcement! We're thrilled to share the cast for #Bookish . Co-written by Matthew Sweet, Starring Elliot Levey and with DOP Anton Merton.

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Some news. Mark Gatiss 💙 and I have been writing this for the past year: shooting begins this month. Prepare to fall in love with Book. deadline.com/2024/04/mark-g…