One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
Good Omens 2 + Text Posts
Song of the Sea + The Lighthouse
if you love me, you don't love me in a way i understand
wishbone, richard siken
I got peckish
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread,” - for inktober 20 been wanting to draw these pining idiots for months, and this was a perf justification to go with prompt ‘tread’
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falling asleep while reading a book 1. marek langowiski // 2.3. morgan weistling // 4. malcolm liepke
Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Planers, 1875
i slithered here from eden, just to hide outside your door
That smile and bright eyes looks like something out of a Peanuts strip I love it I love you I would die for this possum
It does rather look like he’s reacting to something I said…
PLAYING IN THE DARK will go out completely on BBC Radio 3 from 7:30 to 10:30pm on December 23rd.
It will go out in two slightly trimmed halves on BBC Radio 4, on the early morning on the 25th of December and the afternoon of January 1st.
Hear David Tennant being Crowley and Aziraphale and a Scottish narrator…
You will be able to listen to each programme for 28 days after it goes up. Anywhere in the world.