overheard: "I'm fine actually, but i can't dash around as urgently as i used to."
Matthew Broughton
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Writer https://matthewbroughton.wordpress.com/
"i believe that you should stuggle towards the thing you can't do, and not do the thing you can do." Henry Moore
Smell diary of London - 1# Fitzgerald Street E11. -unmistakeable, strong, spirit of cloves
"'back to the future' will be the big movie in the summer of 1985." - the cultural certainty and confidence they had back then - an assumption of consensus in a small pond. #totp
strong red roll neck from Midge, but he's not sure what to do with his hands #totp
red box look like they're genuinely having fun - baader meinhoff pop #totp
not sure about the song itself, but the prince charming video is like some kind of black magic - diana dors alchemy willed it to number 1 #totp
bucks fizz songs are interesting - little bridges between the new wave and pop #totp
thinking of off-screen (never seen/heard) characters: Joe Maplin and Miss Cathcart - Hi-di-hi; Mrs Mainwaring - Dad's Army; 'Er Indoors - Minder. Dick and Lottie Potter in Aykbourn's early plays; Norm's wife Vera - Cheers... Must be some outside of comedies...
The Night of the Lunar Eclipse - is now the Drama of the Week Podcast - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Drama of the Week - Fork in the Road: The Night of the Lunar Eclipse - BBC Sounds
A past death resurfaces forcing a reckoning in Matthew Broughton's psychological thriller
bbc.co.uk
Broken Colours Series 1 is repeated on R4 from today a 2.15pm. (All 3 series are available on BBC Sounds - although not necessarily together...)
Fork in the Road: The Night of the Lunar Eclipse. Now available on BBC Sounds. (and will be on the 'drama of the week' podcast later this week.) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Fork in the Road - The Night of the Lunar Eclipse - BBC Sounds
A past death resurfaces forcing a reckoning in Matthew Broughton's psychological thriller.
bbc.co.uk
The Night of the Lunar Eclipse in on BBC R4 at 3pm today. And on BBC Sounds afterward. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Fork in the Road, The Night of the Lunar Eclipse
A past death resurfaces forcing a reckoning in Matthew Broughton's psychological thriller.
bbc.co.uk
Today I saw a woman talking to her dog: "We need to buy a griddle pan."
Broken Colours Series 1 is repeated on BBC R4 from next Wednesday (26 Aug) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Broken Colours, Episode 1
Jess sees the world differently from other people. A new thriller from Matthew Broughton.
bbc.co.uk
More information on my new upcoming R4 Audio Drama: matthewbroughton.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/t...
The Night Of The Lunar Eclipse
60 min audio drama – TX- BBC Radio 4 – 22nd August 2026. CAST: `Nikesh Patel Varada Sethu Norah Lopez Holden Written by: Matthew Broughon Sound Design: Sharon Hughes Producer: Nadia Mol…
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just went to the shop - and imagined i was walking onto that roof in chernobyl
the last frontier, Alaska's official flower is the forget-me-not
Seas roll to waft me; suns to light me rise; my foot-stool earth, my canopy the sky
Studio day - recording new 60 min play - “The Night of the Lunar Eclipse” - at Broadcasting House.
Enjoyed Summerfolk at the NT last night - moments before the revolution….