Simon Guerrier
@0tralala.bsky.social
Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
I'm sorry to say that there has been a lack of progress on the mouse front
Dinah Rose KC@dinahrose.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is not the conduct I expect from a cat who has just released a live mouse into my home, and lost it.
(Re last repost, here is me recommending The Victorian Chaise-Longue, with a doozy of top fact at the finish: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-...)
The Victorian Chaise-Longue, by Marghanita Laski
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Ever buy a vintage paperback for the cover, knowing nothing of the work, and find yourself so engrossed in a fabulous little volume that you only stop to wonder why no one ever recommended this one to you? The Victorian Chaise Longue by Marghanita Laski was that book for me today.
One of the BEST eps we've done, with a true pioneer of Television.. Come through the square window with us! 📺
Through the Square Window@squarewindowpod.bsky.social · 4d agoOur new episode is out today! @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and @gkw.bsky.social sit down with Joy Whitby, creator of Play School and Jackanory, and the woman who brought us Catzweazle and The Book Tower, among many other children's TV shows. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
On the extraordinary The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow, as recommended to me by @unamccormack.bsky.social: 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow
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We’re delighted to share that WHEN THERE ARE WOLVES AGAIN by E.J. Swift, and published by Arcadia, is the 40th winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year.
Thought I’d miss the eclipse because of tree cover: tree based camera obscura!
Had a nice chat to a woman standing outside her house holding up a hinge
On the roof of the world to hunt grasshoppers and see the partial eclipse
In 1912, a young writer in Reading watched an eclipse. In his journal, he described 'the sky was clear, and very weird the universe seemed; the atmosphere dulled as if charged with volcanic dust, especially on the horizon.' His name was Wilfred Owen. collections.reading.ac.uk/special-coll...
Wilfred Owen, Mabel Rayner, and a solar eclipse | Special Collections
In our new blog, Dr Rhi Smith reveals the story of Wilfred Owen and Mabel Rayner's chance meeting during a solar eclipse and the impact of each on the life of the other.
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My Beloved Other - A memoir of love, race and optimism in a time of denial. Available next Tuesday, Aug 11, (in the US) or order it from your local book or comic store: ISBN number 9781596433700. UK/EU, order from all “usual” online retailers. #comics #graphicnovel #antiracism #memoir #book
Interview: the art of the built environment Our writer @0tralala.bsky.social spoke with architect and artist Alexis Butterfield about his distinctive visions of the streets and buildings in Liverpool... READ 👉 newstartmag.co.uk/articles/int... @takealineforawalk.bsky.social #news #interview
Interview: the art of the built environment
Architect and artist Alexis Butterfield paints distinctive visions of the streets and buildings where he lives in Liverpool, informed by his years working in the sector. He spoke to Newstart about the...
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⚓️ That's right, we're still obsessing over The Odyssey (we were doing it before it was cool, too), so we're hosting another Slow Reading Club inspired by the epic...
The year according to Peter Haining’s ‘Doctor Who: The Key to Time’ — Today in 1977: DWAS’s 50th anniversary is celebrated in a new book from the Society – Doctor Who 70-79 – available now at www.dwasonline.co.uk/dw7079
My interview with artist and architect @takealineforawalk.bsky.social on the complex layers of Liverpool’s buildings: newstartmag.co.uk/articles/int...
Interview: the art of the built environment
Architect and artist Alexis Butterfield paints distinctive visions of the streets and buildings where he lives in Liverpool, informed by his years working in the sector. He spoke to Newstart about the...
newstartmag.co.uk
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
How do you tell stories when the possibilities are limitless? When time and place mean nothing and everything all at once? Join us at Writing the Occult: Time & Place on 5 September as we pose that question to some of the most accomplished writers to have set foot in the TARDIS... 🧵⬇️
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to @scifibulletin.bsky.social (the site - not me, quite yet!) @alasdairstuart.com @smartartz.bsky.social @nickjjoy.bsky.social @bigfinish.bsky.social @dannyrobins.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/2026/08/03/f...
Farewell to SFB
This is the news story that I never quite expected to have to write, but here we are. This is the last day of regular updates to Sci-Fi Bulletin. For those who don’t know the history, Sci-Fi Bullet…
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My thanks once again to Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social for his thoughtful and sympathetic and extensive response to 'Magic Rays of Light', including a great selection of extracts. 0tralala.blogspot.com/2026/08/magi...
Magic Rays of Light, by John Wyver
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Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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If you saw a film about Spider-Man this weekend then your little ones might like this book
Ned Hartley@nedhartley.com · 2w agoHappy publication day to The Diary of Spider-Man! I‘m so proud of this exciting book and I hope that spider-fans will dig it! #spiderman
New baby hippo born at Berlin Zoo. Named Brötchen. Which means "little bread roll." You're welcome
The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1993), starring Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Walters and Lena Headey, and directed by Waris Hussein, is an astonishing thing - every time I thought I knew what it was doing, it went somewhere else www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Screen Two, The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Nineteen-year-old Margaret is about to marry a dull middle-aged man. Can anyone help her?
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NEW PODCAST: Daniel Trilling in conversation at the Bookshop with William Davies about his new book IF WE TOLERATE THIS, which examines how far-right ideas have come to dominate the political agenda Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... @trillingual.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social
