Jack Thorne
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The recording of today's
#UHCTV
is now up! Please please share and elevate these incredible voices. The disabled TV community stood as one today and said change is vital and it can happen:
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My son is 4 today. His Mum and I are a bit sad we are partying alone. He is all good with it.
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Seem to have Covid, which is not reacting great with my asthma. Amazing treatment from my GP over the phone, taking the time to give me all sorts of tests THEN consulting with a colleague before prescribing. Feel like I’ve been run over by an elephant but in total awe of the NHS.
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Sometimes as a writer you get the chance to meet a truly iconic prop.....
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This is my son’s favourite picture. He pulled it out in a gift shop (after a visit to Walmer castle) and asked us to get it for him. He likes to go to sleep holding it. He is three years old.
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There is no one lonelier in literature than Sophie’s Mum in the Tiger That Came To Tea. When the Tiger knocks she’s shocked because the milkman’s been, it’s not the groceries day & her husband has a key. No one ever visits her. No wonder she lets that cat do whatever he wants.
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"I think you know how to love better than any of us, that's why you find it all so painful" is, in my opinion, the line of the century. Sometimes television is elevated, sometimes in elevates.
#Fleabag
you will be missed.
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#HisDarkMaterials
is about two child heroes. What I always loved about Pullman’s choice of Will is that he is a child carer. In today’s broken world what greater hero can you find than that? We wanted to give that the space it needed. I hope people like the choice.
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Today is the “global premiere” of
#HisDarkMaterials
- holy sweet monkey rabbits - I really hope people like what we’ve done. Everyone has worked so hard. It’s been an honour to work with these amazing people on these incredible books. Feel a bit sick.
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I’m the guy on the laptop near the Pret toilets who helpfully tells people the code when they arrive at the door and look around exasperated. I didn’t volunteer for this job but always seem to do it in whichever branch I’m in. The grateful smiles seem to make it worthwhile. Ish.
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Probably one of the best bits of fun I have as a human is trying to break google maps walking estimate times. I’m a very fun guy.
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Bag of sweets. Hopeful smile. A blonde kid waits on a train carriage for his life to change.
#19yearslater
(been - waiting - for this day)
Today's the day Albus Severus Potter boards the Hogwarts Express at King's Cross for the first time
#19yearslater
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Some personal news: just before Christmas I was diagnosed autistic. A long journey but one I'm very very happy to have gone on. Makes sense of stuff before, hopefully will help with stuff to come. I don't understand it all yet, but I'm getting there.
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If I hear underlying health condition one more time... it is a division that is utterly barbaric. Hear it on the news, from friends & from my family. It is not an appropriate unit of measure. If you are less scared because this is mostly killing disabled people then shame on you.
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One of the great losses of the 10s. Having witnessed quite a lot of it in the last few years, “green screen“ acting is a true feat of imagination, this is up there with the best.
Before and after the animations and effects were added to WHO FRAMER ROGER RABBIT (1988). Impressive stuff from Bob Hoskins considering he had nothing to work with.
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So
#GoodOmens
is as batshit & beautiful as I hoped. It feels like the soul of the book has been replicated on screen & when that soul contains screaming lunacy that means they've done something truly, totally, original. Thank you
@neilhimself
,
@drmuig
& everyone else involved.
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I'm 41 today. My birthday wish is the Tories don't get a majority next week. Since 2010 the treatment of disabled people in this country has been abhorrent, BJ's express lack of commitment to social care means it'll only get worse. More will die if we don't get them out.
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I distinctly remember first reading the final chapter of Northern Lights. An ending which is that thrilling thing - both truly audacious & earned. One of the most astonishing pieces of writing I’ve ever read, tonight we try and do it justice.
#HisDarkMaterials
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@kIopptimistic
@ivanamac
@Cambridge_Uni
I was a target schools officer at your University & was consistently told the door was wide open to comp kids. You need to re-examine your policy toward this excellent student & many like her. The results process has been destructive, you don’t need to be the same.
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#BackToHogwarts
and the smell of hopeful bread permeates the carriages of the Express along with the familiar stench of chocolate grogginess. A second year for Scorpius, Albus and Rose is coming down the tracks. Love this day.
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Noma, Jamie & Paul will be the most brilliant three. We're very lucky to have them. And to assure all doubters - Paul is ginger in his soul.
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In other news...never thought my wife was much of an actor...until my son found his art in the recycling bin (don’t judge us, he draws a lot, we keep some). The moment where she told him she’d put it there “for a rest” was ace but her thanking him for finding it was Oscar worthy.
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Had a blast at
@HeathersMusical
- amazing performances and dangerous tunes. A twisted turning morality tale that plays some beautiful games with the original film. Not sure how I feel about croquet or chainsaws now. But Love is God.
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I need to stop crying on long distance planes. I know it's something about air pressure and oxygen levels but was on one yesterday and it did my head in. Beauty and the Beast feels quite legitimate to cry at, but sobbing uncontrollably at Jumanji is just humiliating.
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Nothing more beautiful than a parent who wants only comfort for their child.
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My son moved into his big boy bed tonight. So for entertainment my wife and I watched him sleep. He looked so tiny and so huge at the same time. The surprising thing about being a Dad is you never know which bits are going to tear your heart out.
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The word auteur gets massively overused in film and never used in tv. But Russell T Davies is a true and total auteur. No-one writes like he does, that peculiar mix of humour, naughtiness, pain and poignancy. He is just brilliant, and
#AVeryEnglishScandal
was a masterpiece.
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Please watch
#TheVirtues
tonight. It is Shane Meadows at his soul searching best, and it has a performance from
@StephenGraham73
in it that rips the door off the hinges. So so proud to be part of this one. 9pm.
@Channel4
.
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This cast are truly sensational, bear with us for everything else (we promise we are not monkeying around).
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Boris is trying to reduce this to a "political ding dong". This crisis has relied on self-discipline. He hasn't shown it, his advisor hasn't shown it & now looking out of my window I see the country isn't showing it anymore. Meanwhile the disabled & elderly remain locked inside.
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If anyone wants tips on how to give speeches I’m your guy. Nailed it. I wanted to talk about Melody Herzfeld, Parkland & hope but above all wanted to give thanks to the ace ace cast, ace crew, Sonia, Colin, John & that incredible witch
@jk_rowling
. So v grateful for all of this.
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The stories we heard making
#Help
were devastating. If you took something from it, please write to your MP. Care needs an immediate and full public enquiry, firm spending commitments from this new money, and for care workers to be paid a living wage.
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Just discovered my left leg is three-quarters of a centimetre smaller than my right leg. I am 40 years old. I’m using this information to make sense of every bad decision I’ve ever made.
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We went on a barge holiday when I was a kid. One night some drunk twats set us adrift. My awoken Dad dived in the water and went after them. Entirely naked. When I can’t sleep for worrying about the wrong reply I sent to an email I do wonder about the genes I failed to inherit.
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I’ve voted (Green incidentally, the first time I’ve not voted Labour, and it hurt). Please please please vote, these elections may not seem as important as a General Election but they are going to be a battering ram as to our future.
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Having looked 40 since the age of 32 I’m delighted to announce that today I am 40. Here's hoping I look 50 in 2 years time.
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@JohnBoyega
It's a brilliant piece John, and celebrates you perfectly. Sorry your time on Woyzeck was so hard for you, I can't imagine how exhausting that year must have been.
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The closest visual representative I've ever seen of the script process. The pure hope of the beginning, maybe this is the one that will work, the solidification as great minds come to help you mould it better, the sad & bitter end as you realise you're a loser & a twat after all.
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Mum's advice about my son being reluctant to go to nursery: "oh, don't worry, your sister didn't talk for 6 weeks when I sent her, no-one asked me about it, they just assumed she couldn't talk yet, then one day she started singing & shocked them senseless." The glorious 1980s.
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One day I’m going to start a toddler book group for concerned parents where we discuss things like the dark use of the past tense in the opening sentence of Curious George (George WAS always curious - is he dead now?) and the twisted yet inclusive morality of Roger Hargreaves.
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Oh, just remembered one crucial thing, when I asked whether he liked it because she looked like grandma he said “no, she looks like a cauliflower.”
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The "needed megaphone" (in so many ways) LMM. The first actor we approached for
@darkmaterials
, I threw up before & after we met him (I actually had a stomach bug, though I was nervous too), having got to know him a little, he is everything you'd hope him to be. This is awesome:
"I’d tear up and get very emotional as a kid..."
@Lin_Manuel
Miranda talks about his early sensitivity to music.
Listen to his wonderful Desert Island Discs here:
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I am on Desert Island Discs this weekend. This feels like winning the greatest of prizes. Loved doing it and
@laurenlaverne
was such a kind and wonderful interviewer. Should you wish to listen it's going out on Sunday at 11am.
(apologies for my music choices in advance)
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My parents believed advent calendars were irresponsible consumerism so I was never allowed one. My sister-in-law has just bought me my first. Unfortunately, she has met me so knows me to be very dull, so it is a Pukka tea calendar. I've saved my 'Turmeric Active' tea for later.
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Ep 4 of
@darkmaterials
& enter an aeronaut & a bear. The first actor we cast, I had the privilege of writing for the great
@Lin_Manuel
from the v beginning, in contrast, Iorek was the last I met, and I wept when showed him. Together they are the finest pair. WE ARE NORTH!
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Tonight for "date night" (an institution that feels wrong but is entirely right) my wife has declared she's tired of being constantly dragged to the theatre so instead we're going to - play badminton. I avoided PE entirely at school, I cannot do so in my marriage. Pray for me.
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Very excited for everyone to meet Pantalaimon, Stelmaria, Iorek and the Golden Monkey. We have a bunch of geniuses working on post for this, not just technical wizards but incredible storytellers, every shot I've seen with daemons in has been astonishingly well thought out.
"Now is the time to choose a side."
#HisDarkMaterials
, coming to
@BBCOne
and
@BBCiPlayer
later this year.
@darkmaterials
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@jk_rowling
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
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Ep 6 of
#HisDarkMaterials
was one I was so excited to write. Through this series we wanted to show how Lyra is made, this is the ep when she becomes valiant. With some sterling support from
@Tiltinglia21Lia
& others I love how this is about ace kids working it through together.
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My main discovery after almost six years of marriage is that my medical ailments aren’t as fascinating as I thought they were. Just did a fifteen minute monologue about my insect bites and my wife seemingly couldn’t give a shit. In fact, she looked mildly disgusted.
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Tip for all parents: take photos of all the places you’re hiding the mini eggs. Tip I didn’t follow obviously. This hunt is about to go feral.
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There’s been an outbreak of nits at my son’s nursery. My son hasn’t got them...yet. My wife, however, is convinced she does and keeps scratching her head like a mad woman. In 15 years being bald I’ve failed to see an upside, until today. Today I am bald, nit free, and proud.
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We are all so very chuffed about this. Long live the mighty mighty mighty
@Channel4
.
#Help
hits 1.1million streams after just 4 days - biggest ever launch of a new drama on All 4 👏
@StephenGraham73
@jackthorne
@marcmunden
#jodiecomer
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Just to say in terms of the joy of collaboration, I got a stumped on ep 2 of
@darkmaterials
- couldn’t get the tension right, & then Joel Collins our production designer came up with the idea of how the Golden Monkey got about in Mrs Coulter’s apartment. It was transformative.
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Excuse the graphicness- but was told I couldn't consider myself a true Dad 'til my child had vomited into my mouth. Tonight, I was baptised.
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When I was a child I was featured on the news. I was in a sack race and crying. It was the 80s and there was a campaign going to ban sports days. I was the accidental face of it. Anyway, it was a dark time, this is a light time. I am beyond chuffed. Thank you WGGB.
.
@jackthorne
receives the Outstanding Contribution to Writing Award and writers honoured in 16 categories at the 29th
#wggbawards
ceremony
Congratulations to all the winners, thank you to our sponsors and read the full story on our website:
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The latest in my ongoing series of ugly cakes made with love. I’m going to keep making them until my son is old enough to force me to stop. The shape I bought a tin for, everything else I screwed up by myself. Happy birthday Elliott (it was last week actually but party is today).
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Has anyone done a study on what the terrible limited accents we do when reading books to our kids do for the kid's sense of the world? My tigers are all posh, my rabbits all cockneys, my eeyore sounds like Jon Ronson. I mean he's probably learning the right lessons, but still..
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Episode 2 of
#HisDarkMaterials
tonight, and we're in London with Mrs Coulter. Obviously, Ruth Wilson is superb, the Simian in her beginning to emerge, but in an episode that is often a two-hander between the two of them
@DafneKeen
is her equal. A truly remarkable young actor.
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I’d say that the main thing I’ve learnt personally during lockdown is that I’ve gravely underestimated oven chips in the last 20 years. Loved them as a kid, disparaged them as an adult, until now... because an oven chip dipped in ketchup & mayonnaise is truly the food of Gods.
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We had some brilliant actors playing Tiny Tim last year and we'd love to get similar brilliance this year. If you are over 9, under 4’6” and disabled the theatre would love to talk to you. Gender is not a concern, a girl called Grace played Tim last year and was absolutely ace.
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Shane Meadows is the most beautiful delicate man. As we put pen on paper for
#TheVirtues
he told me this story- so writing began with two bald middle aged men crying in a room together. It is the bravest piece of tv I've ever seen, his soul shines through it like a stick of rock.
Shane Meadows: 'This was a chance for me to create a safe space, to face my abuser'
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Everyone is sharing stories & it feels important - so I was in my final year of Uni, I had a complete physical/mental breakdown, I left Uni, spent 6 months in bed, got better over the next 20 years, still am getting better. Big love to all.
#MentalHealthAwarenessDay
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Just caught up with ep 5 of
#YearsAndYears
- the most audacious piece of character work I've seen in - years. What I love about the show is it's terrifying not just in terms of what the future might hold for this country - but also what this country might do to our humanity.
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Very very very happy about this. All hail Sarah Lancashire.
Delighted to announce that BAFTA and RTS Award-winner Sarah Lancashire (Kiri, Happy Valley) will reunite with
@jackthorne
in his brand new 4-part series The Light (w/t)
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I have worked with John Boyega (on Woyzeck at the
@oldvictheatre
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I would work with John Boyega and I urge other Non-Black creators to affirm that they have his back as well.
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I'm no RTD but I've spent most of my life writing for Channel 4. How it looks at the world is risky and unique. Privatisation will mean the risks aren't taken because privatisation is always about minimising risk. This loss would be profound.
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I can't believe we've made it to series 3 of His Dark Materials, that we've completed the trilogy. It goes live on HBO tonight, and then on the BBC on the 18th December. Just the most extraordinary thing to be part of.
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#IMayDestroyYou
is an astonishing show. I love the way it tells its story so simply and yet with such a wide canvas. An evisceration of those that do damage, an examination of recovery. The acting is incredible, the writing is out of this world.
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I’m not worried about Jimmy McGovern making shows, he’s fine – how do we support the next Jimmy? The next Sally Wainwright? The next Michaela Coel? Authors are vital for the good of our industry & the good of our country. TV is precious, the BBC is precious, we must protect it.
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I love my job. This is the best shot I found of me working. Got fired (obviously). Still.....
#SaveTheArtsUK
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Watching
#HamiltonFilm
is creating a mix of astounding glee (it’s just so so good) and this horrible tug in my heart - I miss live theatre too much. May we be back together soon.
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As a writer (& human), there is a whole list of things Shane Meadows has taught me. Episode 4 of
#thevirtues
is possibly the greatest. This is a filmmaker facing his personal demons & he does it with phenomenal beauty. Please watch. 9pm,
@Channel4
.
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Can’t wait for the pubs to open so my neighbours, who seem to have been in permanent house party mode for the last fortnight, will go there and leave us in peace.
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@darkmaterials
I hope people like it, I’m sure some will think it’s too faithful or not faithful enough. But it was truly made by people who love the books, who wanted to “sound every note” (
@janetranter1
) of Philip’s beautiful world. Please watch. 8pm, tonight,
@BBCOne
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Over 3 years ago
@MissDumezweni
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@Popski_emski
,
@alexpriceactor
,
@DickLeFenwick
,
@AnthonyBoyle
,
@paulfthornley
&
@sam_clemmett
began work on a play. They are about to finally leave
@HPPlayNYC
. They are the magnificent 7, and I will miss them hugely.
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Robbie Coltrane was a kind and generous man. Always deep in conversation with anyone close. It always felt like his fearless acting came from that deep desire for humanity. A terrible loss.
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Look Mum! I’ve become a hipster! And - disgustingly - I’m over the age of 40. In my defence it’s my favourite line from my favourite film and my son is called Elliott (because of the same film).
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My uncle, John Burrows, died on Friday. A big soft man who loved walking, television and fish & chips. He was also a schizophrenic who spent his life in and out of care. Occasionally it would get the better of him, but mostly he fought it valiantly. He had such a kind soul.
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I’m taking my son to nursery for the first time today (an induction day, he starts properly in January). I feel like a bird pushing its chick out of the nest. Thankfully he’s making it slightly easier by insisting on wearing a nappy on his head.
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So incredibly chuffed for Jodie Comer and
@CathyElizaTyson
. Two incredible actors. Two wonderful people.
#bafta
#help
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It's a complicated process, getting diagnosed, but I found lots of kindness along the way. I'm very very very pleased to have done it, and I'm very very very pleased to know this about myself. Anyway, that's my new year. Happy 2023 to all.
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@UKLabour
I genuinely don't understand - as a Labour Party member for almost 25 years - why you would tweet out something so provocative and stupid - if you're not going to support the march at least don't antagonise people. It makes us look ridiculous as a party.
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Working on
#HisDarkMaterials
has been one of the highlights of my life. I know we’ve frustrated some people with our choices but I hope people have felt our love for these amazing books. I’m so grateful to
@janetranter1
&
@danmcculloch
for letting me be part of it.
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The big question in disabled casting is when disabled people will be seen for roles that aren't necessarily disabled. There is SO MUCH prejudice in this industry about this. I have casting conversations all the time where I'm asked 'are you sure this won't stretch them?' - or -
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A lot of people ignore the play out music - not many people dance along. He is the greatest.
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If you'd spoken to care workers, as I was able to do, during the pandemic, you'll understand that what happened wasn't unfortunate or happenstance or even negligence, it was a political choice. Matt Hancock should be facing an inquiry, not Ant and Dec. Don't buy the bullshit.
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Btw when Jodie Comer “drops into” your DMs it is never embarrassing, it is jaw-dropping.
#baftas
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THEATRE THEATRE when the PM came to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, pre show he stood centre aisle nearest the stage & turned so the whole auditorium could see him THEATRE he knew how to catch his light THEATRE THEATRE please help us catch ours THEATRE THEATRE
@OliverDowden
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Doing this tonight. Mainly for the A’level politics kid still inside me. And to try and get disability issues raised on a mainstream news programme. Will crash and burn obviously. Arg.
On Question Time tomorrow night, Fiona will be joined by
@DamianGreen
,
@LouHaigh
,
@CharlotteIvers
,
@jackthorne
and
@theblackfarmer
.
Join us and a studio audience from Walsall at 10.40pm on
@BBCOne
.
#bbcqt
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We NEED to be telling more disabled stories. In the press and on the tv. The stigma that allows Pip payments to be attacked AGAIN can only be solved by understanding and empathy. This cannot go on.
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Can’t tell you how chuffed we all are about this. My Mum loved working in the care sector, but she retired on £4.60 an hour. For all of us, being given the opportunity to shine this light by
@Channel4
and
@all3media
was a true privilege.
#payourcarers
#heroesall
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Everyone should know Barbara and Alan. So proud to be part of this, so proud of everyone involved. Hope people like it. Hope it marks the start of more disability programming. There’s so many stories to be told. Please watch. 9pm. BBC2. Tonight.
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Ep 4 of
#Kiri
is about Kiri. There are so many vulnerable kids in this country for whom vital support is being eroded by brutal cuts. Been a dark experience working on this show and hearing their stories. Magnificent cast, incredible crew. Channel 4. 9pm.
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Spent 12 hours in hospital yesterday with my 2 year old son - poor kid had a bad chest wheeze. A&E was packed all day, but the nurses still found time to be funny & brilliant & one blew up a disposable glove for him. He kept it with him all day & called it Punky.
#OuramazingNHS
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RIP Michael Angelis, the heart of Boys from The Blackstuff. There's a moment in it that made my heart stop, his kids are starving, he finds £5. He goes out, buys chips, lager & whisky. Clip not online but here's the script, imagine an incredible performance full of self hatred:
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Went Halloween shopping with my 3 year old this weekend, he loves puppets & dress-up. He saw this & fell in love. It was battery operated & there was no display model so I had to rely on the shop assistant who said it was 'Disney cute'. It's not, it's terrifying -my son loves it:
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So excited to have
@lumos
bringing light to
@HPPlayLDN
today. Such an important charity doing such important work:
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However you engage with it, know that it was written by someone who loves and has always loved Harry Potter.
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