Announcement! 📣 Join us online 1st Oct for Some Words with a Mummy: An Evening with James Swanton 🪲James will talk about his role as The Mummy in BBC’s Lot No.249, behind the scenes chatter & more, including a dramatic reading! tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/101386990116… Members go free!

This should be jolly good fun - and it falls close to the one-year anniversary of shooting LOT NO. 249. I'll be heaping nothing but praise on Mark Gatiss 💙 and team, so I'll try to find some other pocket of my career for sensationalist muck-raking... Anyway, tickets now available!

I'm a big fan of Mr Swanton

A wonderfully exciting event from ISSE, so why not grab yourself a ticket 👍

Daisy Boooootcher 👻 This mummy actor event might be of interest!

Delighted that my erudite friend James Swanton will be discussing his experiences portraying Conan Doyle’s raggedly monstrous Lot No 249 in the 2023 BBC production of the same name for ISSE on 1 October. Details below. #Egyptology #Reception #Egyptomania #Mummymania

Book your tickets below 👇🏼 and spend the evening online with James Swanton & the ISSE team as we discuss his experience of playing The Mummy in Mark Gatiss 💙 ' BBC adaptation of LOT NO.249 eventbrite.com/e/some-words-w… #jamesswanton #lotno249 #themummy #insideNo9 #shudder

The countdown is on! Get your tickets below! 👇🏼

Join the ISSE team as we spend the evening in conversation with actor James Swanton - the perfect way to kick off spooky season. Grab your tickets below 👇🏼 eventbrite.com/e/some-words-w… 1/10/2024. Online. 6pm-8pm. Tix £8+EventBrite fee. #HorrorCommunity #Halloween2024

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How are you starting off spooky season on 1st October? Why not join us and James Swanton for ‘Some Words with a Mummy: An evening with James Swanton, Actor!’ Expect behind the scenes of ‘Lot No.249,’ SFX makeup, Q&A, Conan Doyle, & more! 🪲 Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/some-words-w…