Glenn Chandler, as Boys of the Empire Productions

Tour, book signing and exhibition at Margate Museum on 94th anniversary of ‘Murder at The Metropole’ - theisleofthanetnews.com/2023/10/14/tou…

Big thanks to @radioruderham for inviting me on to his @blackdiamondfm radio show this morning to talk about #SilenceInCourt and #TheresBeenAMurder at #EdFringe. Cheers Geoff, always good to catch up.

📻 Look forward to chatting with Geoff tomorrow. Catch @LiamRudden talking all things #SilenceInCourt with @radioruderham on @blackdiamondfm at 12.15pm on Monday 12 June. Please do tune in if you can.👇🏻 Here’s the link blackdiamondfm.com/listen #EdFringe #FillYerBoots

Glamorous adventurer author Richard Halliburton, who crossed the Alps on an elephant, swam the Hellespont, and live live lived! Including (ta Paris Police Achives) soliciting in the rue Saint-Lazare, offering "sucking to passers-by". Carpe diem by jingo! paw.princeton.edu/article/trail-…

Fab night @SHCentre #spalden #lincolnshire -lots of people had their photos taken in front of #themakingsofamurderer backdrop including the amazing front of house staff who made sure we were all looked after tonight. Great photos of you both with me THANKS #truecrime #murders #victims #justice #truth @MakingsOfMRDR @scotchdetective

“Dream Factory”, the short film I acted in recently, has its first screening @RoundhouseLDN 8th June. I can’t be there because of touring, but having seen the finished edit, director Alex Matraxia (pictured right) and the team have done an amazing job. Photos: Adam Pietraszewski.

Further to yesterday, here's the 1895 ball photo with Lord Battersea's procurer – Arthur Thorold. He's at the top centre: self-assured, cocky, cigarette poised, quite Wildean. What an incredible life lay ahead: one that would end on a suicidal ride into infinity. More tomorrow.

10 years ago today. @glennchandler’s Killers, one of the most chilling productions I’ve ever directed, premiered at @brightonfringe, in the Old Police Cells Museum. Here are @GarethDMorrison, @ArronUsher and #EdwardCory as Peter Sutcliffe, Dennis Nilsen and Ian Brady.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

At The Door (detail): a 1907 study by Eugene Jansson (see previous posts) of his favourite sailor model Knut Nyam. It comes to auction with a 25-35 thousand euro estimate on the first of June at Bonhams, Paris. Just the thing to fill in a gap. bonhams.com/auction/28127/

Everyone's fave popular novelist and self-inventing lesbian, Marie Corelli. In 1908, in an article Thieves Of Honour, she attacked the British Government and King Edward VII for their suppression of the Irish Crown Jewels theft due to high names and homosexuality. You go girl!

@Margate_Museums please RT @MandTweets

@MycroftBrolly Yes Raks, I remember the day. I was in London and they mistook him for a terrorist. Tragic.

Saw this at #Stockwell tube and it stopped me in my tracks.

@Margate_Museums Not to be missed! Originally performed in London, now coming to Margate Museum in June, an original drama based on the remarkable case of Sidney Fox. Performed in the very court in which he stood.

@margateradio how about broadcasting something on this? From the creator of Taggart, an original drama first performed in London, now for two nights only at @margatemuseum in June. What did happen in Room 66 of the Metropole Hotel, Margate, on 23 October 1929? Come and find out.

@LiamRudden I believe it's a mackerel sky. Bit fishy I know.

There’s a name for the cloud formation over #Edinburgh right now but for the life of me can’t remember what it is. Anyone?

Sir Gyles Isham, 12th baronet & gay scholar squire of the equally dreamy Lamport Hall. A golden blond youth of 1920s Oxford & actor (including opposite Garbo), he served in the 8th Army, & MI5/MI6. For Cecil Beaton his Hamlet offered "the most beautiful back view I'd ever seen".

Critic Hannen Swaffer, born 1879, struggles like others to make sense of the tsunami of change in 1925. (Although Wandsworth has always been a bottomless sink of moral depravity.)

A curiosity of modern life is that, like Marilyn, after your demise you may be re-envisioned in a way you never dreamt. Lord Beauchamp's problematic boyfriend George Roberts (died 1970: see our Vol II), is now retailed via someone's linocut on crafting website Etsy!! Bless.

It’s livening up @Playhouse_WB #whitleybay - great to see the #truecrime northern girls fan team who go to @crimecon_uk every year here to see #themakingsofamurderer @MakingsOfMRDR which starts soon.

This couple checked in to the Metropole Margate 16 Oct 1929. Only one checked out. He was hanged. #sidneyfoxscrime comes to Margate in June. @margatemuseums for tkts. @kentlivewhatson @margatemercury @IamCliftonville @BBCRadioKent @Thanet @bbcsoutheast @MandTweets @MargateBookie