Dr Miranda Emmerson

I’ve left for the other places where the AS is less rampant. Bye Twitter. It was good for a long while. And then it wasn’t.

@TheWritersGuild - correcting a typo!

For many British writers (including myself) BBC audio drama was where we started, where we learned, where we explored what we could do. It's being dismantled, removing a vital ladder for new writers in this country. #SADatTheBBC @TheWritersGuild @BBCRadio4 @BBCRadio4

@beccawilson_97 One last attempt! Rebecca, would it be possible for you to follow me so I could message you, please? It relates to acting work, Welshness and Jewish representation! I'd be very grateful. Thanks, Miranda

@beccawilson_97 Rebecca, can I cheekily ask for a follow so I can dm you? It's work related!

@martinjohnes He supervised my PhD and was such a lovely man. Everyone who knew him will be devastated…

Back on the bad bird site briefly to say thank you to all those involved in the "Cardiff: Working towards a Neurodivergent Friendly City" event at Cardiff City Stadium. ND self and ND eldest child attended and met some brilliant people working in the field. #neurodiversity

@ciaranmartinoxf @HeleneBismarck If you’ve still got one spare…

@rapclassroom Bloody hell… Imagine admitting all that and thinking it will come over well. Does that mean he doesn’t bother to like/get to know women? Does he think that public schools are basically grammars and everyone potentially has a shot? So many pissed off questions!

There are people in this country living parallel lives, with no interest in integrating etc

@bertsbooks The Dutch House - Ann Patchett. But also maybe Bournville - Jonathan Coe and The Human Factor - Graham Greene.

I have an #ImportantFridayQuestion - what's the best book you've read this year? (So far, obvs)

@harriet_tyce It’s just so normalised and I’m sure they’re assured that the writer couldn’t have come up with the idea without them… So it’s still ‘their book’. And they want their book to sell, don’t they? If it just has some writer’s name on the cover it won’t. It needs their name…

If you’re outside entertainment you may not be aware what an open secret this was. For years and years and years. The people who finally brought it to light (and the women who shared their stories) are heroes - all of them.

Eldest studying Macbeth so we made plan to read it in park. Except it poured. Eldest decided this would add mood so we spent day in drizzle (with my copy from English GCSE). Probably just as well no one around as eldest has cracked out *all* the Scottish accents. @YGBMSaesneg

Terrific mini biog 👇 of Bernice Rubens - one of Wales’ (many) neglected female authors.

When you ask people about the books that shaped them, the ones that went deepest & stayed with them the longest - it's usually books they loved when they were young. That's why I think children's books are the most important books of all; why I give everything I've got to them.

Community Clothing is trying to restart underwear manufacturing in the Welsh Valleys. You can help by pre-ordering low impact, organic cotton underwear from them now (at discounted prices). I’ve put in an order to help get it off the ground. You can too: communityclothing.co.uk/pages/welsh-pa…

Liked The Following Events Are Based On A Pack of Lies very much. Longer I watched, more I felt it was really about Johnson. And while the writers pointed you to Epstein and Saville it was another blond, lying, cheating, gaslighting piece of filth they had been thinking of…

Posting again with further details about Gboyega's clothing when he was last seen. Please share on your socials and WhatsApp groups. This is very, very worrying.

Barista in Costa: I am SO sorry about the pattern on the top of your coffee…

Still proud of our women and I always will be proud of *every woman* - regardless of country - who strives and trains and gets on that pitch to represent her country after so many decades of discouragement and mealy-mouthed prejudice.