I need a drink are listening to this masterful short story. Ice Cold in Alton (Towers)

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 19h ago

People are loving* our tale of seaside metal fatigue, suppressed guilt and scorching hot suspension in weird timeless discomfort. It’s SUMMER! TORMENTOR - the Broken Veil Summer Special - is available exclusively on the Broken Veil Channel. Join on Patreon. #brokenveil (*also being upset by)

Hey, has anyone here seen the new Nolan film? Would love to get your views!

I know everyone knows that hacks don't write the headlines, but for the removal of doubt: REMEMBER the Thick of It, the kids' writers' room was great but the best writers' room I've been in was for, you know, The Thick of It. inews.co.uk/opinion/forg...

Forget The Thick of It, the best writers' room I've been in was full of nine-year-olds

Getting kids so immersed in the writing and filming process can really spark something special

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Comedy Club Info 1/4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 2/4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 3/4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 4/4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Listen 1/4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 2/4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 3/4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 4/4 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Comedy Club Interviews, David Arnold 1/4

Paul Garner chats to composer David Arnold about his comedy credentials.

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Burnham slips into cabinet office and immediately consults new AI minister for bold ideas to revolutionise UK economy.

INFLUENCER TWATS: STOP HOLDING CLIP-ON LAVALIER MICROPHONES IN YOUR HANDS

I am available for hire these days. Like I used to be. Should you have any writer/script editor/story producer needs. 🤷🏻‍♂️ www.andrewellard.com

Andrew Ellard

Andrew Ellard – screenwriter. Script editor on the IT Crowd, Red Dwarf, Miranda and Count Arthur Strong. Writer of the competition-winning films AfterDeath and Future.Inc. Scriptwriter for film, TV, t...

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Answering the phone with an exchange name.

Ian Martin@ianmartin.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Verify your age" crank-starting a car

We’re all enjoying this, right? Nice sounds, smart comedy. Congratulations @edmorrish.com www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

P.O.V. - Series 2 - 1. As We Were Saying - BBC Sounds

As we were saying, this is a sketch show made by the internet's best comedians.

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Class act!

Al Ryan@alryanradio.bsky.social · last mo.

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

And here’s why we make this independently. Because this is the sort of pitch that will *never* get you a second meeting. It’s just what the story needs. Not what anyone’s long term brand strategy requires.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Radio history. Gnosticism. Elizabethan magic. WW2 codebreaking… Not my words, Carole. The words of Radio Four’s Front Row…” Broken Veil II is out now. Patreon.com/brokenveil

This is going to sound incredibly earnest and preachy but fuck it. Support creative people. Buy their stuff. Share it on here. Music, art, words, whatever. Things made by humans for humans.

If you've not listened to Broken Veil, you've missed exemplary storytelling - a modern ghost story in the hinterlands of Essex, and some things I can't reveal for security reasons. If you heard Series 1 and have been wondering whether Series 2 is worth the price of a meal deal - the answer is YES.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Whole of series two now available. Don’t miss out. #BrokenVeil Join the Broken Veil Channel. Patreon.com/brokenveil

If you've not listened to Broken Veil, you've missed exemplary storytelling - a modern ghost story in the hinterlands of Essex, and some things I can't reveal for security reasons. If you heard Series 1 and have been wondering whether Series 2 is worth the price of a meal deal - the answer is YES.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Whole of series two now available. Don’t miss out. #BrokenVeil Join the Broken Veil Channel. Patreon.com/brokenveil

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Petition: Regulate Social Media Platforms as News Publishers to Prevent Misinformation petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Petition: Regulate Social Media Platforms as News Publishers to Prevent Misinformation

Review and amend the Communications Act 2003 and the Online Safety Act 2023 to hold social media platforms to the same standards of "Due Accuracy" and "Due Impartiality" as mainstream news broadcaster...

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RIGHT! Now Broken Veil 2 is done, I'm running the first of my writing courses this year. Five weeks, Sunday afternoons, UK time, online. People have really liked these sessions, so let's do it again. Let me know if you want to join in via the website here... www.gralefrit.co.uk/writers-room...

WRITERS ROOM

THE WRITERS' ROOM

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Thinking of running another one of my 5 week Be Funny Or Die online comedy writing courses, probably July into August. It’s been a while. Would anyone be interested in that?

Oh, I should probably mention that we're currently crowdfunding a new series of the Lovecraft Investigations.... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu

Something ancient is stirring. The Lovecraft Investigations brings H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu into the modern world — a new season of cosmic horror from the hit independent audio fiction sho...

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WHERE IS MY FURIOUS CELLIST?

So lovely to see the MTM team at the cast & crew screening tonight. And the finished shows are a delight. Catch it on Channel 4. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Make That Movie review – Sam Campbell has made the funniest TV show of the entire year

The Last One Laughing and Taskmaster star’s supremely daft mockumentary is so hilarious it deserves to be paraded around the streets. Hopefully it can run and run

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It’s revving up to be another dumb hot day and, do you know, I’m thinking I might watch Connections in the dark.

Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My favourite ending is the one that reveals he had opened the show in the cockpit of the Enola Gay. Jaw dropping.

We are months & months & months into writing Broken Veil and now fixing it on the fly, during release - and that’s meant doing a ground-up rewrite on one episode on a boiling hot bank holiday. But because this is the best job in the world, I am entirely happy doing that. Sometimes it’s a pleasure.

Congratulations to @juliansimpson.bsky.social on the stupidly successful launch of The Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu on @BackerKit! So exciting. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/j...

Lovecraft Investigations: The Call of Cthulhu

Something ancient is stirring. The Lovecraft Investigations brings H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu into the modern world — a new season of cosmic horror from the hit independent audio fiction sho...

backerkit.com

yes! podnews.net/press-releas...

CBC, ABC and BBC Partner to Revive Beloved Audio Series 'Short Cuts'

National public broadcasters will collaborate on Short Cuts for podcast and radio platforms with the original host, British comedian Josie Long

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Whatever you do, don’t reduce the chances of me winning the raffle by coming along, telling all your friends, and buying your own raffle tickets to support this extremely worthy cause.

Prof Neil Martin@thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

THE BIG REVEAL! Chums, on Friday, 22nd of May (from 12.30) we're having the grand opening of High Barnet North London Hospice's Bookshop! There will be live CARTOONING from @marshallcartoon.bsky.social! There will be caricatures! There will also be....

This is the short story I wrote for the splendid Mat Baynton to read. Quick hit of bittersweet school band nostalgia... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Short Works - The Circle - BBC Sounds

A story by Joel Morris for anyone who’s ever formed a school band – or listened to one.

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*THREAD* Two of the BBC's most significant and celebrated single dramas are to be repeated in the coming weeks. All-film productions, NEW transfers. In recent past people want to know about that work and it's a great reason to watch something again - but will the press office pull their finger out?

New short story by me, entitled The Circle, read by the fantastic Mat Baynton. Going to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, this afternoon, at 3.45pm, repeated Sunday at 11.45, and on BBC Sounds. X

#BrokenVeil BROKEN VEIL II Episode 3 out now. Episode 4 out tomorrow. Only on Patreon.com/brokenveil