Dr Sophie Duncan

Artistic Associate @nationaltheatre . Write #SearchingforJuliet. Rep @GeorginaCapel. Own views!

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

paperbacks arrived! come & see @suzifeay and me talk #SearchingforJuliet at the @oxfordlitfest on Friday morning https://t.co/vybAGbrple

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

@miserabiliter It’s not even “may there be less domestic violence than there usually is during and after tournaments”

[The Spectator @spectator]

A gang of teenage traveller boys who filmed themselves raping lone schoolgirls on two occasions have been spared jail.

It seems from Judge Nicholas Rowland's remarks that 'none of you need to go to prison today' that he didn't find this a difficult decision to make.

The details of the case as reported make the judge's choice incomprehensible. Two of the rapists, both 14 at the time, targeted a 15-year-old girl on Snapchat and lured her to an underpass where they filmed themselves laughing as they raped her.

On one video one of the boys is heard saying 'don’t film it mush'. Two months later the same two boys, joined by a 13-year old, gang-raped a 14-year-old schoolgirl, this time at knifepoint. They filmed that attack on their phones, goading one another to degrade their victim.

The first victim attended the sentencing hearing. She read a poem which included the line 'All I want to do is die, I no longer have fear for when that comes'.

✍️ David Shipley

Article | https://t.co/JyBkbif8Kc

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

@FionaWinserRamm She’s beautiful. She really is. I’m so sorry and baffled that they did this.

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

@juliet_turner6 Congratulations on your DPhil, Dr Turner! Love from Dr Duncan at Magdalen.

[Victoria Coren Mitchell @VictoriaCoren]

Middling scores I expect, but if #Strictly was only about a person in the public eye expressing a totally different side of themselves, learning to ballroom dance from a standing start and a different world, Karen Carney would be the winner this year for me. I think she’s great.

[Shyama Perera @PortfolioWoman]

My first Hamlet was Kenneth Branagh's. Not knowing the story, the interval was unbearable. Have seen it 10x since, but nothing like Robert Hastie's high-energy production @NationalTheatre. Unique, unforgettable, are Hiran Abeysekara (Hamlet) and Francesca Mills (Ophelia). See it!

[José Manuel Dorado @JMDoradoFaces]

This play’s still the thing! Hamlet at the National Theatre – in pictures https://t.co/5fo8fS0V7n

[Reuben Johnson @_ReubenJohnson]

Having a blast on the Olivier stage at the @NationalTheatre. #Bacchae

📸 @brennerphotos

[Mark O’Brien @obrienmark]

A glorious, raucous, brilliant triumph. Congrats Indhu and all involved in Bacchae @NationalTheatre
What an invite to the future

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

A privilege to see #Bacchae, Indhu Rubasingham’s exuberant, visually stunning and triumphant opening production @nationaltheatre. A night at the theatre I’ll remember — as I imagine everyone else who saw it — will remember till my dying day.

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

Please let my baby continue her contact nap until after I have finished eating my spag bol.

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

Read this whole thing and dissolve into a mess

[Smajo Bešo OBE @SmajoBeso]

I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about.

[Nicholas Lezard @Nicklezard]

This is a version of the St George's Cross I would be very happy to stand behind. Selfless bravery, human decency. Some people don't like it.

[Dr E. Jay Gilbert @jaylikesthings]

Oxford friends: you can now book to come and listen to me talk about spooky happenings on 30 October at @Dauntbooks Summertown to celebrate the paperback publication of #Haunted! @bonnierbooks_uk https://t.co/nO2h8KoMnC

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

A former student has just read The Pursuit of Love for the first time. Imagine the bliss of having the other three still to go. I really struggle to find contemporary fiction to read so am constantly re-reading.

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

Adorable

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

A page of figure studies by Gesina Ter Borch from 1648 (Rijksmuseum)

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

Is there an app for “why is this train not moving”

[Dr Sophie Duncan @clamorousvoice]

@miserabiliter I’m also not at all convinced that if you want to study sport to a high level, that an A Level is remotely the best format for it.

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

.@MichaelJBooks  and Entangled Publishing (@entangledpub) will jointly launch a new imprint targeted at readers aged 16+ in February 2026 👇 https://t.co/FPSQf9oNBo

[Mystery Steven @StevenGarner12]

A depiction of the “dark cherry red” lipstick worn as part of a disguise in Taken at the Flood (aka There is a Tide) on this edition is my submission for this week’s #MurderEveryMonday
Christie did seem to enjoy this misdirection clue, using it again in Mrs McGinty’s Dead. 💄👄