North America waking up to the news that my narration of the first three Dorothy L Sayers classic detective mysteries featuring Lord Peter Wimsey are now available on Audible, beginning with:
@HachetteBooks
@DLSSoc
@AudioFileMag
Doing a voice job from home this morning the producer online had a mechanical noise audible in the background.
“Sorry” he said, “my mother’s on the rowing machine”
New Half Man Half Biscuit Album “The Voltarol Years”
@HMHBLyrics
Track list:
I’m Getting Buried In The Morning
Rogation Sunday’s Here Again!
Awkward Sean
Tess Of The Dormobiles
Grafting Haddock In The George
Big Man Up Front
When I Look At My Baby
On the last day (ever?) of
#ColdFeet
I look forward to meeting the
@gmb
team for breakfast and
@OJBorg
on
@BBCRadio2
for tea.
After the Festival episode I’ll decline any chocolate biscuits.
#OTD
1960: Television Centre, the world's first purpose-built television production complex - described as the “Hollywood of the Television Industry” - was officially opened. The opening was marked by a special variety programme called ‘First Night’.
Had my bare bottom slapped with a newspaper last week in a film.
There was no intimacy counselling and, to add insult, I wasn’t even given the choice of which newspaper.
Late to the party as ever, just finished
@StuartMaconie
’s 2004 autobiog “Cider With Roadies”
Dawnings of Northern Soul, Punk, Madchester etc.
It’d make a great movie, with a swivellingly good soundtrack.
I’d play Bez
Looking forward to meeting Ranvir Singh and Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain for a cosy chat about grief, heavy drinking, poetry and
#ColdFeet
. Monday from about 0830.
@ranvir01
@richardm56
@GMB
Love, Loss & Chianti.
Robert Bathurst to star in immersive staging of 'JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL' at The Coach & Horses pub in Soho, London!
MORE INFO 👉
#JeffreyPlay
@RobertBathurst
Saunas in racecourse weighing rooms are closed to jockeys, for their safety.
Instead, I was told yesterday, some riders drive to work with an under layer of bin liners and the heating on full.
Safer?
@nickluck
@PJAOfficial
@BHAPressOffice
Snapped in the Coach & Horses in Soho at the end of performing Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell.
We crammed in 70 punters for midnight lock-in performances on Saturday nights.
Raucous.
@Fullers
@Maison_Bertaux
I posted a trigger warning “This play contains references to Smoking, Gambling, Alcohol and Sex”. A woman wrote back “Ah, the Four Horsemen, bring it on!”
www.jeffreyplay,com
Looking forward to meeting the midnight punters shortly, a sold out and doubtless soggy crowd for the late late ramble of Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell. It’s a rainy night in Soho.
Just 300 yards of country lane verge yielded 4KG of litter, including Red Bull, beer, loads of crisp packets, a teriyaki salmon salad, a bra and a green wig.
A radical new proposal for Theatre is doing the rounds:
Instead of relying on two months of Panto to pay for the rest of the year, theatres plan to put on shows for all twelve months of the year that people actually want to see.
The Lost Eps might get lost!
All 80 episodes of Dad's Army are to be repeated on Saturdays 8pm
@BBC2
, but it's only 77; three lost eps from Series 2, restored by
@UKTV
, are not in the schedule.
Would you mind, awfully, showing them?
@CP_TheWorks
@DadsArmyFans
@KellyPhelps_
Three Musketeers sketch, Round the Horne 1967
(B Marsden)
My husband and I are graciously pleased to receive our loyal Musketeers.
Let me kiss my Aramis
Let me kiss my Porthos
Let me kiss my -
what is your name?
(K Williams)
Ar-thos
(B Marsden)
Let me shake you by the hand
@JulianDutton1
@TalkingPicsTV
Maurice Denham installed the lifts at BBC Broadcasting House in the 1930s. True. He told me. In a lift. At
Broadcasting House.
Beneath This Broken Headstone
In A Suffolk Ditch
Persian Rug Sale At The URC
Midnight Mass Murder
Token Covid Song
Slipping The Escort
Oblong Of Dreams
Released 18th Feb
Butterfly experts, please help identify this one, filmed in Sussex yesterday. The size of the palm of a hand. It’s not native, possibly Papilio Deiphobu. Wondering how it got here.
Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Emeralds, amethysts,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.
Crikey, think of the paperwork
#WTOterms
Final Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell today at the Coach & Horses where, I’m told, there’s a great review of the show scrawled on the wall of the ladies’ toilet. You can’t buy that sort of PR.
Last lock in for Jeffrey Bernard tonight! Tomorrow everything is going to change! Big love to the main man
@RobertBathurst
.. it’s been a crazy joy!!
#dontlettheashdrop
#OnThisDay
1977: Thanks for the Memory - The Viewer's View asked people what they thought about television.
This woman was likely approached for a snappy vox pop, but ended up delivering something closer to a dramatic monologue. Fantastic stuff.
Two days to go before the opening of “Love, Loss & Chianti” by the poet Christopher Reid; a two-hander with cartoon animation, and
@beccyljohnson
Here’s the story:
Love Loss & Chianti gets 4 **** in The Sun from
@JournoJacobs
. With 4**** in The Times earlier this week that’s a super soaraway 8******** from News International.
Wonderful.
@RiversideLondon