Robert Valentine
@mrrobvalentine.bsky.social
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Training for the Great North Run with @alfiejdshaw.bsky.social @andr3wsmith.bsky.social & @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social of @bigfinish.bsky.social fame. Please sponsor if you can❤️ it's HARD. ajbellgreatnorthrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/lisa-mcmullin ~RunFastBeKind (and sweaty) @lewybodysociety.bsky.social
Listen, here's a good wheeze if you're scheduled to be sacrificed at dusk today. There's this solar eclipse forecast for 6:17 BST, so all you have to do is announce to your captors that if they don't let you go, you will use your powers to put out the sun. Once freed, just get out of Suffolk.
The announcement of the Strictly line up is the first tremor of the inevitable arrival of Christmas.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Perfectly timed for my Prisoner themed month, currently enjoying listening to this.
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, A Portmeirion Love Affair with Life
Brian Epstein, The Beatles’ manager, finds unexpected love in Portmeirion, Wales, in 1966.
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I’m reading Erebus by Michael Palin, and McVities’ advertising department might owe ship’s surgeon, naturalist and Antarctic explorer Robert McCormick some royalties.
FIRST LISTEN! 👂 Due for release on 27 August, Doctor Who – The Sixth Doctor Adventures: Reunion: https://bgfn.sh/merger. Things are going to get awkward, to say the least.
Man In A Suitcase opening titles - theme music composed by Ron Grainer.
Sitting quietly, drinking my morning coffee, wondering how the suckmothering fuck I’m ever going to get my arse into gear is my favourite part of the day.
Lyonesse is the legendary drowned land said to have once stretched between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Arthurian tradition sometimes makes it the homeland of Tristan. Stories claim that it disappeared beneath the sea in a flood, with only a single survivor. #MythologyMonday
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Morning gang ☀️ Here's a short thread of some fun intros and screenings I have coming up over the next month or so 🧵
Gojira Godzilla Appears on Hill
ALT: Gojira Godzilla Appears on Hill
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Watching a very old favourite; Disney’s Treasure Island. I was obsessed with this map as a kid and would draw it over and over, and get my Mum to write out the legends with a Berol handwriting pen.
⭐ JAM ⭐ The Tiny Angry Witch is having jam for breakfast - but what happens when a wasp intervenes? This is the first video we released, in October 2024. It’s stop motion animation, made with models and household items! Written, built, animated, voiced, and scored by 4 x people (and 1 x Witch)
Latest training run done! Just over a month until the Great North Run, and if you’d like to sponsor me, that’d be lovely of you. ajbellgreatnorthrun2026.enthuse.com/pf/robert-ta...
Zaphod tried to run in several equally decisive directions simultaneously.
Caped Crusader, give or take the occasional odd creative choice, is basically my favourite flavour of Batman.
Batman: The Caped Crusader's Iconic Rooftop Pose
Alt: Batman: The Caped Crusader's Iconic Rooftop Pose
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Author Robin D. Laws joins us to discuss The Crawling Horror by Thorp McClusky, a protoplasmic pulp tale that prefigures Body Snatchers and The Thing!
Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"
She’s tiny. She’s angry. She’s the Tiny Angry Witch! We make stop-motion animations about the Tiny Angry Witch who lives in our home. Follow us for videos and behind the scenes glimpses! Animated ~ Lumi Barron Written ~ David K. Barnes Voiced ~ Beth Eyre Sound & Music ~ Odinn Orn Hilmarsson
Give a man a fish and he’ll take it as a coded message that Luca Brasi is dead.
Wouldn't want too much time to go by without reminding the public at large that my book Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860-1935 would probably look very nice in your local library, so you could ask them to buy it and test this hypothesis.
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Hello! I'm very excited to announce my writing debut. DOCTOR WHO: CIRCUIT BREAKER #1 is out now! if you've ever dreamed of smashing together Doctor Who & The Odyssey, this one's for you 🫡 co-written with Dan Watters, art Roberta Ingranata, colors Valentina Bianconi, letters Comicraft
the Holy Lunching Friars of Voondon (who claimed that just as lunch was at the centre of a man's temporal day, and man's temporal day could be seen as an analogy for his spiritual life, so lunch should (a) be seen as the centre of a man's spiritual life, and (b) be held in jolly nice restaurants)
Ralph Bakshi's gorgeous, rotoscoped, and incredibly dark animated version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) was, at times, like a nightmare to my 9 year-old self. I had particular problems with the creepy Nazgûl, especially during this famous scene...
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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I’ll be back at Highgate Cemetery on 17 November looking at its history as location for film and television Booking details here: highgatecemetery.org/events
Jarvis Cocker, New Order, Elbow, Dr Who (v. Eccleston), @daraobriain.bsky.social, Kraftwerk, Mogwai, Brian May, 2 astronauts (Peake & Hadfield), the Poet Laureate, the Lovell family & many more. Heartwarming to see how much the UK loves Jodrell Bank & astronomy🔭🙏 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Artists, writers and scientists urge UK government to save Jodrell Bank Observatory
New Order and Simon Armitage among more than 100 signatories to criticise ‘foolish and shortsighted’ cuts
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Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Harvest time’ (1950s) Artist: Ronald Lampitt
