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@LizWebsterSBF He's not quoting Thomas More directly, but a play about More from the 1590s, believed to be co-authored by Shakespeare, which is why he mentions him. Exquisite delivery & I applaud the sentiment.

🚨Sir Ian McKellen is quoting Thomas More, writing in 1517 during anti-immigrant riots in London 🔥 when terrified foreigners were dragged from their homes and blamed for every social ill. More asked the mob a simple question: “What would you do, if you were the stranger?” 500 years later, those same words cut straight through the noise. Because today we are again stirring hatred, again blaming the vulnerable, again pretending cruelty is “strength”. If the great humanists of the 16th century could see the danger… why can’t our politicians in 2025? History is speaking louder than ever. The only question is: are we listening?

New drama: The Dagenham Porkchop by @Broughton500 1415 today @BBCRadio4 Ronny 'The Dagenham Porkchop' is an old wrestler with a painful past. Stars Robert Glenister, Ron Cook @HolliDee and Lisa Palfrey. Sound by Nigel Lewis. Directed by @davidjohnnorton bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

this feels like a song for today youtu.be/La8_flXOTrI

Grangetown almond harvest

@Otto_English well, it always has been hazardous. i almost got crushed there by a bedford dormobile in 1976 (my dad's) when my best mate ian got in to pretend to drive and let off the handbrake (we were 3 years old).

Waking to the news that Aylesbury is a no go area.

@RupertLowe10 I grew up in a farming community. ALL large scale slaughtering is cruel and barbaric. Transporting livestock to our bigger regional slaughterhouses is terrible too.

If you have seen videos of animals being brutally killed through halal slaughter, you would support banning it too. I won't share them. It is vile. We should not unnecessarily subject our animals to such cruel and barbaric suffering. It is simply not the British way.

11 years ago, when the council cut down all the trees in our street, I decided I wanted to see almond blossom from my bed. This week it happened. #slowlike

Given that we all know AI has massive bias problems, why do we accept that companies are shortlisting job candidates using AI?

@carcassone81452 @iain4europe @thatsnotmine125 @kelvmackenzie 1000 years ago most of the land currently called England was part of the Danish North Sea Empire ruled by Cnut, son of Sweyn forkbeard. The rest was occupied and ruled by Welsh or Scottish people. (see map). 4 decades later it was ruled by Normans. People move. Nations change.

Happy World Radio Day to every single radio practitioner around the world - past and present. #worldradioday2025

The Bolt - new drama by Tim Price (writer of #Nye) 2.15pm @BBCRadio4. Tensions flare in the North Wales #climbing community when a steel bolt appears on a sea cliff. Stars @sion_eifion & @Nozlozhoz Directed by @davidjohnnorton Sound by @BassettRobinson bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@ManonSteffanRos Not at all! I lucked out there :)

@davidjohnnorton I've only just realised reading this that you are Mathilde's husband! Is it a bit late to offer my congratulations?!

Nadolig Llawen ya filthy animals x

@SoundlessHunger @ihatehemedti @NesrineMalik A few million of us might say this kind of thing about Ireland. Are you coming after us too? And the quarter of a million Brits living in Spain - would you criticise them if they sometimes referred to Britain as home? Or British as « us » ?

@ihatehemedti @NesrineMalik Oh right. Forgot British citizens frequently call other places home nowadays

The prisons and the people bewildered upon their release some after decades are beyond devastating. Mabrook to the Syrians. We wish you solace in your reunions and returns. Inshallah the day will come for us too.

i added subtitles to hana rawhiti maipi-clarke's parliament haka since it's gone viral and i feel like it'd be good exposure for our reo maori! enjoy.

I love public art.

🚨Latest on Scotland’s culture crisis: Leading theatre warns it is "almost impossible" to make new plays due to a lack of certainty over Scottish Government support - as Creative Scotland rules out emergency funding for venues facing “imminent closure.”🚨 scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

Politicians aren't the only attendees at this COP conference... The Mosquito 2.15pm @BBCRadio4 -satire by @Anita_Plots stars @RobertBathurst & Laila Alj. Sound @BassettRobinson & directed by @davidjohnnorton Supported by OKRE @wellcometrust #climatechange bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

… and this one… Quincy Jones - Summer In The City 1973 - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=6xN3KO…