Mark Wyman

Londoner with Westcountry roots, toiling away for the Westminster village. Used to work for the Beeb & for TV/film mags. Being a webmaster was a thing, once.

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

@HCH_Hill Ah, but the title for female Peers (Baroness) differs from the way that Members are required to *refer to* each other in debates. At that point it becomes "the noble Baroness, Lady Harman" or "my noble friend Lady Harman". [See any day of Hansard for this]

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

Featuring the departure of Sarah Jane Smith, an event I found genuinely distressing at the time. I found it hard to imagine watching a "Dr Who" (sic) without her.

I soon changed my mind though.

[The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @WorldsofDrWho]

#OnThisDay 1976: "Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear" part four.

#DrWho #DoctorWho #scifi #sciencefiction #1970s #horror

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

@paulybengali Ever-orange tweet, no notes.

[Lloyd Cole @Lloyd_Cole]

Thanks for all the kind Rattlesnakes 40th anniversary words. Worth remembering, at this juncture, that I was not alone making the record. I was very lucky to be in such a great band, #Rattlesnakes40th

[PARLY @PARLYapp]

Stop saying you. Why is this SO difficult for new MPs.

It’s like nails on a chalkboard every time.

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

@DannyKodicek I think it's New Frontier for me, but picking one is hard.

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

Forty-two years ago today, it was.
I won't have got it on release day but The Nightfly, an exquisitely retro album, was the 2nd chrome cassette (!) that I bought ... after getting a Grundig ghetto blaster with £100 from my first student grant cheque.
#ThePastIsAnotherCountry

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Liz Truss stood at the general election. She lost her seat despite having a majority of 26,000. She refused to give a concession speech. For some reason Conservatives are still listening to her.

[Tony Blackburn OBE. @tonyblackburn]

It was exactly 57 years-
ago today that I opened up BBC Radio 1

[Good Steely Dan Takes @baddantakes]

Happy Aja Day to those who celebrate

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

brat summer is over. now it's time for pannage autumn, the ancient medieval custom of releasing your pigs in the woods so they can eat the chestnuts and acorns that fall to the forest floor.

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

@liam_S126 @englandcricket Matty Potts' first-class average for Durham this season is over 41. Higher than those of Alex Lees or Stokes!

[100YearsAgoNews @100YearsAgoNews]

July 26, 1924: The next-to-last day of the Paris Olympics. Lucien Choury and Jean Cugnot win a gold medal in tandem cycling; equestrian jumping, an event won by Alphonse Gemusius of Switzerland; the Norwegian yacht Bera defeats Britain’s Emily for the gold off Le Havre.

[BBC Press Office @bbcpress]

📺 Seven out of 10 of the most-watched shows in 2023 across all broadcasters and streamers were only on the BBC.

The BBC broadcast the biggest live moments of 2023 for the UK – including The Coronation, Eurovision, Women’s World Cup and Glastonbury ⤵️

https://t.co/YNysvmpByl

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

@salvey1 @99piorg Did you see Straight Line Crazy at the Bridge before Guys and Dolls took up residency? All about that guy.

[Ed Balls @edballs]

👀

[Mark Wyman @Mark_ofthewyman]

@estwebber These are indeed trying times, but there was some rejoicing yesterday at the news that the new Master of the King's Horse has been appointed.

[Robert Harris @Robert___Harris]

The contrast between this and the “lock her up”, “build the gallows” state of US politics makes one proud of Britain, for all its problems