Julian Simpson
@CartoonGravity
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Writer and director. The Lovecraft Investigations, Aldrich Kemp etc.
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At last, some good news.
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I'm so relieved that people seem to be enjoying Haunter of the Dark. You get lost in the process of making these things and then suddenly it's out there, before you really have a chance to judge it for yourself.
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If you and a load of your idiot friends can march, unvaxed and unmasked, down the middle of Oxford Street chanting “Freedom” during a deadly pandemic, then I would suggest you already have a lot more freedom than you really deserve.
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HE'S BEEEEEEN!
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Slightly unexpectedly, Episode 0 has already dropped...
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First physical copy (because
@maybeitwasutah
needs to actually read it). 154 pages of thrills, spills and... Other things. In your ears in October.
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PSA: Season 1 of the Lovecraft Investigations is now back up. The episodes are in the wrong order, because only God is perfect, but it’s there.
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Good morning America. Here is the news.
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I can’t say too much, but I think this telephone box is going to play a key role in the new series of The Lovecraft Investigations…
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I think it’s important to keep in mind that ALL of these people are shitbags. Some shitbags are telling a shitbag that he should resign, even as other shitbags continue to defend him.
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So many dogs around the country are grateful for our show.
Another excellent production of
#Lovecraft
Investigations. Took my dog out on an extra extra extra long walk just to binge listen to this.
@CartoonGravity
have left me craving for more. Season 5 when?!
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Now that the cat is well and truly out of the bag, a behind the scenes shot of
@maybeitwasutah
and
@barnaby_kay
recording The Haunter of the Dark
#LovecraftInvestigations
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There are worse places to record the first Kennedy Fisher mini bulletin leading up to
#lovecraftinvestigations4
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Trailer time! The trailer for Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? just dropped. One week to go now...
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Letting light in on magic:
A behind the scenes video from The Haunter of The Dark. We needed a real world audio cue for the actors to react to when Byron slips into the cellar so I found the top of an old compost pile nearby and dragged it into place.
@maybeitwasutah
& Ben Crowe seen here.
#audiodrama
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The BBC is a soft target, because any one of us can easily point to the bits we don’t use and therefore don’t think we need. But every single one of us interacts with the BBC in some way. You’d miss it if it wasn’t there.
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PSA: Apparently the BBC license for The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward expired on 3rd December. This is a completely normal thing, just unfortunate timing. We're figuring out what to do about it. In the meantime, please hold fast.
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A little Monday afternoon treat... In September 2022, Kennedy Fisher was in Paris, and she recorded a short bulletin detailing what she was up to. It's on her new website as of now Kennedy Fisher has a website!
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Now that the dust has settled... IT'S ALDRICH KEMP DAY! Clara Page and the Themis Group are back, dealing with quicksand, killer bees, murder clowns, and the shadow government of the United States. Nice cup of tea?
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The Lovecraft Investigations will get you fit.
@CartoonGravity
Really enjoying it this morning. I’ve ‘accidentally’ walked 10000 steps already binging it
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For those who want to do a deep dive and get some additional (spoiler free) context for the new series of the Lovecraft Investigations, an earlier play called Bad Memories would be a useful listen:
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If you’re looking to do DEEP DIVE prep for Monday, I recommend taking another listen to Bad Memories
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Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? You’ll be finding out next Spring. I hope to know a bit before that.
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Episode 2 has been found! The whole series of WHO KILLED ALDRICH KEMP? now available:
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This is INSANE
The Chicago Cubs put together a drone tour of Wrigley Field, and it’s guaranteed to be the most incredible thing you watch today 🤯
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I mean, be honest, The Lovecraft Investigations alone was worth the price of the licence fee. Everything else that year was just gravy.
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Advance prep for Lovecraft Investigations fans. Not only does Tim do the music for this and Aldrich Kemp, but Ben Crowe plays Clara’s dad in Aldrich and a MAJOR NEW CHARACTER in Haunter of the Dark.
A little action movie for your ears. Episode 6 of the audio dramas that accompany the songs on our last album Somapolis, as read by the amazing Ben Crowe.
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For those interested in where Lovecraft Investigations goes next:
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As someone with two podcasts series out there, let me tell you to ignore them and head straight for
@TheNewsAgents
. It really is everything a news podcast should be.
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This is the highest possible praise, and I’m taking it to the bank.
@CartoonGravity
’s audio stuff reminds me of Welles’ Mercury Theatre set-up in all the best ways😊
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Is there a plan for what’s happening in the US and UK right now? Or are we thinking we’ll just let a bunch of right wing bozos do whatever the hell they want for as long as they want because we don’t want to upset the cunts that vote for them?
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This is a very good summation of why Fuckhead McLiar should not now, nor ever have been, a figure in public life.
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Building the Lovecraft Investigations - how it started, how it's going...
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I worry that in all the hoo-hah about Dominic Raab being a bully and a dickhead, we risk losing sight of the fact that he is also a fucking idiot.
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I *think* I'm on this tomorrow at 4.30pm:
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Oh it's one of THOSE days. The whole series of Who Killed Aldrich Kemp? is available right now on
@BBCSounds
. Except it isn't, because episode two is missing. *Bangs head on desk*
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If you happen to be a paid subscriber to the Pleasant Green site, then you may have just received a link to a preview of Monday's shenanigans...
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You may not watch the news, but your kids are using Bitesize in school. You may not care for the sport but you listen to 6Music, or Radio 4, or you’re watching Green Planet. Or you like the Good Food stuff, or you’re catching up on something on iPlayer or listening to BBCSounds.
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I’ll take this as a blurb
@CartoonGravity
I'm a bit scared to re-listen, even though it is brilliant. It proper fucked me up the first time I heard it.
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The whole series now available on BBC Sounds. First episode starts on Radio 4 in ten minutes…
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The beginnings of the first piece of non-audio Pleasant Green fiction. It'll be serialised and, I'm afraid, for paying subscribers only.
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If you’re a politician in a modern western democracy where people can’t afford to buy food or heat their homes, maybe you should shut the fuck up about literally everything else until you’ve got the basics sorted?
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I’m quite enjoying watching Rishi Sunak morph from a supposed pragmatist into a swivel-eyed fascist lunatic, in his attempt to win over a couple of hundred thousand ageing rural bigots. Dignity is over-rated.
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What is a "poor quality university degree"? Do they mean the arts? I suspect they mean the arts.
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It is fucking bizarre to watch the BBC take the side of the people who want to defund it.
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What a fantastic address.
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do not do that thing.” – Dwight Schrute
And what is the best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel.
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Will all possible respect to Gary Lineker, it seems unfortunate that the loudest voice against emergent fascism in this country is a football commentator and not the leader of the opposition.
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Imagine running a news organisation and thinking that the spoiled braying of some has-been fascist prick should be a bigger story than people dying in wildfires.
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Just imagine, for a moment, what kind of person you would have to be to work for, or even read, the Daily Express.
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Who is telling the police to arrest anti-Monarchy protestors? I think we need to be able to put a name to whoever thinks freedom of speech is a problem.
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Writing Clara Page vs Airport Security is really letting me vent some post-holiday grievances.
#AldrichKemp
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Many of us will be affected at various times by imposter syndrome. If you're suffering from it today, just know that you are far more qualified to do whatever job you're doing than Liz Truss is.
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Development Hell: On writing audio - Action sequences
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People falling over is never not funny.
Here’s
@CartoonGravity
working hard on location whilst recording Haunter of The Dark, having just seen Marcus Byron (Ben Crowe) fall into an old cellar.
@SweetTalkProds
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Coming very soon…
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Oh fucking COME ON America. Seriously?!
This is the most astonishing and painfully honest video I’ve even seen on buying guns.
MUST SEE.
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It really does just come down to this.
Snoop Dogg blasting the streaming model and supporting the writers’ strike is my FAVORITE thing ever. 🐐
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@kenmccoll
Allegedly the whole series on BBC Sounds on Monday (I only found out today, so I’m playing catch-up)
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Last breakfast looking out over the ocean in Tenerife, and then it’s back to drought-ridden, too-hot, stupid Not-Europe for a couple of weeks. Going to dive right back in to work and pretend I don’t live in a country run by idiots. Morning!
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It’s really not enough that the Conservatives lose the next election. That party needs to be smashed to pieces and run out of town for at least a generation.
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Working hard recording wild tracks in Paris. This is presumably
@SounddesignerUK
’s whole life.
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Jesus fucking Christ KILL IT WITH FIRE!
This is an ocean dwelling ribbon worm from the genus Gorgonorhynchus
What you can see being discharged is a sticky proboscis, this densely branching structure is a feeding appendage used in hunting.
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If you're NOT huddled in a boat trying to illegally cross the Channel, or pressed up against a Polish border fence, that's an accident of birth isn't it? If people took a minute to realise how easily that could be them, and their families, might they be a little more sympathetic?
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The Conservatives: identifying a non-problem that they think we think is a problem, and then failing to solve it anyway.
Today in Parliament we have laid an order to ban overseas care workers from bringing dependants.
This is just one part of our plan to deliver the biggest-ever cut in migration 👇
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Development Hell: Introducing Storypunk...
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Sunak wants to make maths compulsory through to 18. This will apparently better prepare people for data processing jobs. A population of human calculators in a future with no public services, no transport, no healthcare and rampant pollution. Dream big, Rishi, you fucking idiot.
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Do all the people who “don’t swallow the government propaganda” and are “doing their own research” on Covid have their own labs? That’s quite impressive isn’t it? All these independent but fully-qualified scientists studying the virus at home.
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A chance to break your ears in before tomorrow’s launch: Introducing Who Is Aldrich Kemp? - BBC Sounds
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I actually just fucking hate this guy now. He’s a grasping, grifting unimaginative piece of shit with no vision, no imagination and no discernible ability. Fuck him into the ground.
Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential'
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If you caught the cliffhanger to Chapter 2 of Who Is Aldrich Kemp? last week, then you know that you-know-who is back… Chapter 3 starts on Radio 4 in 15 minutes.
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A good indication of the depths of stupid the far right swim around in.
CO2 isn't a poison. It's plant food! We need to challenge the climate change nonsense!
#ticetake
#climatechange
#co2
#plantfood
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The sound design on this is incredible, even by
@SounddesignerUK
’s standards. And
@sweetbillyp
’s music is perfect.
If you liked The Lovecraft Investigations then this should be right up your street. Coming to Radio 4 next Friday. All 5 episodes on BBC Sounds the same day.
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I know I said I wasn’t going to express any opinions, but I’m now thinking of starting a petition to institute an International Ted Cruz Shuts The Fuck Up Day.
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I'm in meetings all afternoon, so will not be listening to this live. Let me know how it goes.
Today on
#BBCR4Feedback
at 4.30pm, a
@BBCSounds
special. 📢
@acatherwoodnews
talks to Head of
@BBCSounds
@wallj10
and former Commissioning Editor
@jasophipps
about the streaming platform.
And Julian Simpson
@CartoonGravity
discusses The Lovecraft Investigations.
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Sure Rishi, abandon your green pledges. We never believed a word of them anyway, and it's not like the world is literally on fire or anything. Prick.
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Thanks you Gregg!
Beginning a rather busy week of reviews this week, Kennedy Fisher returns in the new chapter of The Lovecraft Investigations by
@CartoonGravity
. Is it any good though? Read my Haunter Of The Dark review and find out.
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In subscriber inboxes now, some musings on the present and future of audio fiction…
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So there's a new poll out that says a majority of Conservative Party members think Liz Truss should resign. They voted for this cretin to do exactly what she did, despite the whole world telling them it wouldn't work. These are TERRIBLE people.
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Cleaned up a photo I took last weekend. Have only recently gone back to shooting film, so pleased with how this turned out.
#cinestill50D
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The PM has apologised, move on.
We can’t ban guns, move on.
You lost, move on.
Actually, I don’t think I want to move on while there are still assholes everywhere making terrible decisions and treating much smarter people like idiots. I think I’m going to stay here.
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I’m not convinced that “they’re unelected” is a particularly effective criticism of the Monarchy. If there’s anything the last decade has shown us it’s that the British people shit the bed spectacularly when we get a vote.
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This is quite awesome.
Forget Famous Five adventures,
@e_m_clark
and I are having a
#lovecraftinvestigations
holiday!
Thanks to
@CartoonGravity
👌🏻
First stop, Rendlesham Forest.
While we didn’t bump into any cult members we did spot the UFO statue, RAF Woodbridge & helicopters circling the base.
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New Kennedy Fisher bulletin (members only)
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Thursday 04 May 2023 A possible change of direction, some Lovecraft, sunken lanes and secret passages.
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Who Is Aldrich Kemp?
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Braverman is a monster. A thick monster, but a monster nonetheless.
WARNING: THREAD CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE
🧵 What a morally vacuous, embarrassingly incompetent monster Suella Braverman is.
Having worked at the Home Office deciding asylum applications, I know the 1951 Refugee Convention's terms are far clearer than her pernicious propaganda
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Can we just play this clip to everyone all the time forever please?
A judge scolded right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday for lying under oath during his defamation trial in Travis County, Tex.
“You must tell the truth while you testify,” Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said. “This is not your show.”
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Just get these fuckers out.
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