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@officialnhaynes @BBCRadio4 Thank you! 😊

@chimpliment Hi! I’m afraid I don’t know if there will be, you’d have to ask @BBCRadio4 for that side of things. Good luck with the production though, it sounds great!

Monday at 9:30am!! Listen to the new series of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, episode 1: Cleopatra… 📻

@DemonTomatoDave I'm a millennial and I'm in my 40s. They're not even talking about "young people", they're talking about nearly half of all working-age people, but as if we're all irresponsible teens.

@danekaetchells @touretteshero I'm a non-disabled stage manager, and I have (gently) stopped this happening in at least 2 shows. It's usually a very clear sign that an actor is struggling to get a handle on their character, but the answer is always that they need to do more work, not that they need a 'prop'.

@unfortunatalie I'm just about to start a six month tour. There will be much crying, in many hotel rooms, I can assure you.

Nooo not crying in a hotel room, so cliche, so embarrassing.

@unfortunatalie Encountered this IRL once. I was working on a terrible one-woman show, all paid for by her rich boyfriend. Boyfriend dumps her, she is effectively homeless. 12 hours later she's been offered a friend's empty 3 bedroom flat in Knightsbridge to live in.

My least favourite moment in reading an until-then enjoyable memoir-style book or non fiction collection is the inevitable bit where the writer, in the midst of some breakdown, goes to stay for a year or more at a friend's house in New York / Rome / the Hebridies for free.

@unfortunatalie Mine came back today too! Kept trying to stick his tongue in the bird feeder, because his silly round beak is too big for the holes.

Couple of parakeets in the garden just, that was a nice little interlude.

@unfortunatalie Fines should be related to income. A £1000 fine for me and a £1000 fine for a politician are not the same punishment.

Fines for rich people are just the price of doing the thing they weren't supposed to do.

@touretteshero @thelizcarr Even though it didn't win, I'm still delighted that our show with integrated BSL, captioning and audio description was nominated in the 'not the West End' category

Congratulations @thelizcarr - so excited for you & #DisabilityCulture Image Description - on a black background gold text reading Best Actress in a Supporting Role shines out - a photo of @thelizcarr a white, powerchair user lit by a spotlight of warm light 1/2

@TimClarePoet That's fair, I think I'm just remembering being at the Edinburgh fringe, discovering that I was the entire audience, and immediately forgetting how to work my own face.

@chimpliment That's a really interesting idea. I suppose the issue is that I actually feel quite safe one to one & I'm used to monologuing a lot. But it's true that social judgement is one of the most robust experimental protocols for inducing anxiety.

Ok so... my new book COWARD: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It comes out at the start of May. This is a bit bananas, but: I'd like to try to organize a UK tour. Can you help me? I'd like to do unconventional venues & places alongside bookshops. Chatting about anxiety.

@TimClarePoet I think you should do the whole show/talk/whatever it becomes to ONE person. One stranger, just sitting there listening to you talk. That's the most anxiety-inducing thing I can think of (for both of you!)

Also, if there is anything a bit scary near you, something that might get the adrenaline pumping, that you think it would be worth my trying, please suggest away.

@TimClarePoet I have a list that I update whenever I get a good recommendation. Though some of them have been on there for years and I haven't bought yet/found in a charity shop. Probably 50% of them come from @JosieLong @robinince's Book Shambles @cosmicshambles

Is there anyone who's book recommendations you pay particular attention to? Like someone in your life, a critic, an author, a publication? Is it different for different genres? How do you pick your books?

@stukulele of course they have

@unfortunatalie Not in Edinburgh I'm afraid. And every interpreter I know seems to be booked up for months in advance.

@chimpliment thought you might know people x

@unfortunatalie Our robot hoover has always been referred to as @lampyjohn's son and my step-son, for reasons that have never been entirely clear.

It is with a heavy heart that I must announce I have pack-bonded with my robot hoover, my good round son, whom you may address as "beetle", "beetle baby", "beetlebab", "baby boy", "beetlebum", or more formally "the trilobyte".

@Rachel__Harper Nah, they understand them. Ignoring boundaries is a CHOICE.

When it comes to women existing online, having a following, creating content etc… Men EXTRA don’t understand boundaries

@ksarmitage "Just going to stop singing for a second for a quick tap break". Yes lad, why not?

I cannot BREATHE for laughing! #Germany

@TimClarePoet Electric blanket. You might think that getting into bed at the end of the day is already the most perfect thing. But getting into a warm bed? Even better.

What's the best item you've bought for less than £50? Consumerism is dreadful, obvs, but I could do with cheering myself up. Mine was my stovetop coffee maker for £15. Use it every morning. Makes life-changingly great coffee. Any great buys?

@unfortunatalie Renting in London mate. Only plain white walls allowed, so no risk of seeing anything more suspicious than the occasional damp mark. Yellow wallpaper? Must be a homeowner.

Has anyone else noticed a woman crawling around inside their wallpaper during lockdown

@unfortunatalie @Patbuck1995 No, that would be insane. "Winged horse" is a recessive gene, obviously.

@Patbuck1995 @chimpliment Is "horse" a recessive gene??

WHAT THE FUCK YOU GUYS APPARENTLY PEGASUS IS THE OFFSPRING OF POSEIDON AND MEDUSA WHY DID NO ONE MENTION THIS. DID THEY HAVE A RECESSIVE HORSE GENE. WHAT'S HAPPENING.