roni wilkins

@reece_dinsdale Brilliant.

If I block people, it’s not necessarily for what they directly say/reply to me… but for what I then read on their timeline. More than happy for people to do the same to me. There will be no love lost either way.

@TheRSC I'm reading her Time out of Mind.she was amazing.

We are saddened to hear of the death of Jane Lapotaire. A truly brilliant actress her RSC credits include Piaf, winning her TONY & Olivier awards, & Gertrude opposite Kenneth Branagh in Adrian Noble’s Hamlet.

@reece_dinsdale Absolutely.x

@beachpainter It shows how little knowledge they have of what the job of being an all-round, versatile professional actor entails.

You’re quite right. It’s now been well over a month since I last worked. I hang my head in absolute shame. 😔 Thank you for putting me firmly in my place. 🙌

@barclerk Did you know Alan Green?

On the train to town to attend a retirement dinner in Gray’s Inn in honour of a barrister I clerked at my first set in the 80s and 90s. Boy do I feel old.

@BBCr4today Incredible series..

"He deals with people in a very empathetic, human way." Sir Michael Palin speaks to Today about Mackenzie Crook's writing in the new series Small Prophets, which has brought Michael back to acting for the first time since 2019.

@ThroughTimePod @DavidOlusoga Extraordinary programme.

Why were the Nazis using Spanish towns as a dress rehearsal for their Blitzkrieg tactics? Find out in this week's Journey Through Time. Link in replies 👇

@reece_dinsdale I agree

‘She is not well!’ 👀

@TheBookshopMan Oh bliss....Night night.x

Early to bed with a good book. The rain patting against the window. I think this is heaven.

@reece_dinsdale We've all voted for you

Just got the two shows to do today. Have yourselves a wonderful Sunday, you lovely people! 🙌 You too, Jenny.

@reece_dinsdale Sorry that made me laugh...what a sad person.

@barclerk What a lovely photo.x

Happy heavenly birthday Mum. Miss you loads. Love you C.xxx

@reece_dinsdale @LeedsPlayhouse Will do

If you saw and enjoyed #ThroughItAllTogether @LeedsPlayhouse this summer, please give us your vote. Two categories: #BestRegionalProduction #BestNewPlay Every vote gratefully received. Thank you. 🙌

@WeAreOpenreach I can only post this if I stand near the router and press the restart

@beachpainter Hi Roni. I'm sorry to hear about the fault. Have you reported a fault to your provider. What have they said? Antony

@WeAreOpenreach useless...no Internet / landline for 4 days .dementia carer full time.

@WeAreOpenreach An engineer came out on Tuesday. Said he would sort it ..but nothing

@WeAreOpenreach They say they can come out on wednesdsy.

@bt_uk uselessness landline or Internet now for 4 days.

@simonmontefiore That face!

The way I met Tom Stoppard was unforgettable – over twenty years ago: a producer wanted to make a movie of one of my earlier books, Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar and he said he wanted me to meet the script writer. I was already wildly overexcited because the producer was Mick Jagger but when I arrived at dinner, imagine my almost dizzy bedazzlement when I found out the screenwriter was… none other than Tom -who himself looked like a rockstar, handsome with rocknroll hair that he never lost and who approached the Stalin idea with what I gradually learned was his usual manner which was both brilliant urbane worldweary and erudite but also self deprecating and playful, incredibly warm and generous – all delivered in a beautiful velvety voice with that Mitteleuropean accent. Those slightly rolling-rrr always reminded you that behind his cricket-loving English glamour was a cerebral Bohemian intellect in exile that treasured the English language and a very unEnglish realm of lightly-deployed ideas in a way no English writer ever would. That was part of his genius. Of course we immediately plunged into his special land of Travesties discussing the Stoppardian vision of Stalin in Vienna with Hitler, Freud and Trotsky. Needless to say, that film never happened but imagine Stalin written by Stoppard. From then on we sometimes met - once on a long trip between Delhi and Galle in Sri Lanka when faced with chaotic airports and endless traffic he was astonishingly modest travelling with a tiny leather satchel and just enjoying talking about books & freedom that he defined without fashionable ideology; the last time I saw him he was discussing Belarus’s dictatorship - and especially when he married the great Sabrina Guinness to whom I send love and condolences. Sometimes his philosophies appeared in his plays: “Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn’t take it” and yet: “We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” We have lost our greatest playwright but the plays are very much immortal.

@reece_dinsdale And you are always convincing.I forget that its YOU.xx

In more recent years, I somehow turned myself into a character actor. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about that. A world of possibilities.