Halloween on South Uist, 1932 looked pretty terrifying. Children made homemade costumes from sheepskins, haystack wigs, scraped-out skulls and sheep ears! One boy spent an entire day peeling the skin from a sheep skull to make his mask! (📸 Canna House Photographic Collection)

Discover the unlikely tale of the ladies hairdresser who invented a heat-resistant material that bamboozled NASA, the MOD and Boeing. I loved piecing together this insane little oddity with the brilliant @leejtees Watch here - bbc.in/2IsA0Jz #starlite

Loved working on this animation for BBC Ideas💡- 'How DNA's discovery changed the world - and my life', with Nobelist Sir Paul Nurse of The Francis Crick Institute in partnership with Science Museum bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/h….

Sad to hear of Bernard Hill's passing. What a rich legacy he leaves... 'Boys from the Blackstuff' was my first political awakening. He played fantastic flawed Dads in the brilliant 'Restless Natives' and 'Shirley Valentine', and lifted the whole LOTR saga. A magnificent actor.

Incredible display last night by UK standards. I took myself off at 1am to Blairadam forest to escape the streetlights of Dunfermline. #aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #northernlightsuk #fife #dunfermline

Our film about Eli Crossley breaking America is on @bbcclick this week! Eli has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and is developing an exoskeleton to keep his dream and himself alive for longer. This story is about the power of Technology, Talent, and unwavering Teen Spirit #disability

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Brilliant #TheWholeOfTheMoon

I'm still not convinced this won't work

Those Farage policies in full, from the new Eye, in shops now.

Alarmed by what I'm seeing in the US. I was once pretty confident Biden would win. I'm now pretty confident of the opposite. The consequences are too terrible to contemplate. Most importantly: Putin triumphant in Ukraine. And then the horror of what follows from that fact.

I love this so much ♥️

Mr. Democracy Manifest, the Australian man whose 1991 arrest went viral around the world, has died. Jack Karlson was 82

Will have a succulent Chinese meal in tribute tonight. What a perfect little fragment of human folly this is. Memorialised in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, too …

Titanic hypocrisy from the paper of hate.

Win! Signed copies of the awesome Mon Dieu Cthulhu Trilogy. Join the battle against the mythos right here, right now! Please share and RT! john-houlihan.net/win-awesome-si… #books #action #adventure #fantasy #amwriting #historical #cthulhu #cosmichorror #lovecraft #writerslift #writing

Please listen a few minutes to Andri Snær Magnason. He has a message from Iceland. youtu.be/hdvYezsK70A

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At a time of unprecedented nuclear risk, in January Donald J. Trump🇺🇸 will gain control of the US nuclear arsenal. There are no right hands for the wrong weapons. We banned nuclear weapons in 2017 and won’t stop until we’ve eliminated them. Join us: icanw.org/join

I'm shutting up shop on here to head to the other place 💙🌤️ same old username. Take care and be nice.