Vincent O'Connell

Here's @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social doing the #PublicServiceBroadcasting thing that once would've been celebrated on BBC2's movie roster. #EducateInformEntertain #PreCodeSeason 👇

I've ditched Microsoft because of the lengths they're going to foist AI on me. Can report that Libre Office is fantastic

The Guardian commissioned a forensic biologist to examine the bloodstain patterns from the crime scene at White House Farm. Her findings suggest that Jeremy Bamber's sister Sheila took her own life with the rifle www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

In my ongoing weekend saga of edgy opera, I'd hate for my +1 for 4.48 to go to waste. Tomorrow, Sunday 25 Oct 2pm. Review/details 👇. DM me. Yours for a song (or intelligent conversation about it).

Joy Division, Hulme, Manchester, late 1970s, photo by Kevin Cummins.

The BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a massive blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save Radio 4 Extra 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

The BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a massive blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save Radio 4 Extra 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa... Posting this again...

The BBC is set to scrap Radio 4 Extra. 📻 Losing this treasure trove of classic comedy, archive drama, and timeless storytelling would be a massive blow for millions of us. Sign the petition to help save Radio 4 Extra 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Imagine Don Draper out of a job. For months. A year. Allen R. Dodd's memoir, The Job Hunter, recounts the humbling experience of a once-hailed ad man having—unsuccessfully—to find work. A white-collar classic that belongs on the shelf next to Heller's Something Happened. neglectedbooks.com/?...

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

Here's something: Dennis Potter's rarely seen Play for Today from 1974, Schmoedipus, will be repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 7th October at 10pm. It's their tribute to Tim Curry, who stars alongside Anna Cropper and Bob Hoskins. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

John Coltrane born this day. 1936. Words like “genius”, “icon” “inspirational” and “influential” are nowadays bandied around like confetti, often to people who are quite the opposite; not so with Trane. He is all those things. And more. m.youtube.com/watch?v=HT_Z...

Listen to 4+ Hours of Jazz & Classical Music from Haruki Murakami’s Novels

Marc Almond meets Patrick Clarke in Soho to discuss the death of Dave Ball, the final Soft Cell album Danceteria, his career as a shapeshifter, and why a tribute to the decadence of 80s New York marks a full circle moment Adapt or Don’t: #MarcAlmond Interviewed buff.ly/aVuB1oa

A snapshot of a footballing genius at play... #FilmSky boxd.it/8LFG23

Eleanor Powell + Buddy Rich (+ Bert Lahr) = magic. Watch right to the end. No AI here. From SHIP AHOY (1942)

BBC4 tonight, at 10.15...

Share a smile.

[1980] 2 Tone Records - Nationwide reports on the Coventry based record label that is at the heart of the second wave of ska music, promoting groups like The Selecter and The Specials, bands who blend Jamaican rocksteady, ska and reggae with British punk.

I'm currently scheduling readings for 2027 and would be delighted to hear from any lit/book fests in the U.K. that might be able to offer me a slot. I've a decent track record and I don't require travel expenses from Spain. And I promise not to scare off audiences who think poetry's not for them!

Worth noting that police in the UK have made over 2,700 arrests for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action.

Boyle: “It doesn’t really matter what I think about AI. It matters what 20-year-olds think about it. Is the honest truth." Well Danny, my teenagers think it fucking sucks and they want nothing to do with it or anything made with it

Same old same old. "Fiscal rules" blah blah. There's a good time coming boys, a good time coming.

Comforting Arm, Gorbals, Glasgow, 1968, photo by David Peat (1947-2012), award-winning Scottish documentary-maker, cinematographer and photographer.

[1979] Something Else - BBC series targeted specifically at a youth audience and is an early example in British television of the genre known as "Youth TV". This episode features The Jam performing Eton Rifles, Tony Wilson, and Joy Division performing Transmission.

Not now Irish whiskey black fungus.

Spoiler: It’s fucking mental.

I really poured my heart and soul into this piece. So read it. It won’t cost you a penny/dime/drachma

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Je suis Vince.

Bill Evans. ‘Peace Piece’. Magnificent. youtu.be/Nv2GgV34qIg

Brings me to tears every time I read it.

Single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head.

A really nice interview which casually reveals, at the end, the secret of life.

gm to this memorial to Otto and Elise Hampel, the couple that bravely distributed hundreds of anti-war postcards around the city. They were eventually executed and their story became the basis for Hans Fallada’s novel Alone In Berlin. 📍 Rathaus Berlin-Wedding, Mũllerstrasse

How big a Fuck Off can I give this?

Feeling very sick about this. Although different in many ways, I am compelled to remember the Guardian’s front page one Monday morning in February 1999- “Playwright Kane Found Dead” (“Found Hanged” in the earlier editions). Sarah was my friend, and had been hounded by the press who then got so sad.

This is such a brilliant powerful piece, please read it. AI doesn’t have to be inevitable; we can choose a human future.

The film rights are mine, ok?