Sea Creatures, new music by the writer, @tobylitt, @WritersRebel and myself, is a 3-track meditation on the impact of humanity's insatiable compulsion to consume and its calamitous impact on the planet. Sea Creatures is out on May 19th.
Our LRB Screen x @mubiuk series continues on 30 September with a screening of Jan Švankmajer’s 1988 adaptation of 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘦’𝘴 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥. Writer Devorah Baum will be in conversation after the film.
Tickets here: https://t.co/e6g2t5I1mI
Congrats to my friends @meandyouprods who continue to innovate and take risks with emotionally fearless work such as this collaboration between director, Dominic Savage and actor, Elliot Page.
To mark the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, @BBCRadio4 is broadcasting a five-part reading today.
Readers include Martin Freeman (9am), Juliet Stevenson (3.15pm), Adjoa Andoh (7pm), me (9pm) and Tom Hollander. Hope you can listen https://t.co/kCcNehncq6
Some rare good news on climate change
Wind power was the UK’s biggest source of electricity for the last year, knocking gas off its pedestal
https://t.co/B9SY4CzIj6
Feat @iain_staffell@DrSimEvans@jessralston2 & @ClaireCoutinho
24hours left with doubled donations! And a comic book art auction...
Support the team behind the amazing graphic novel collaboration with everyone from Adam McKay to Alan Moore to @aha_com !
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#WorldPenguinDay starts the day that Adélie penguins start their migration journey north.
These tiny penguins will waddle around 13,000km in a year, following the sun from their hunting grounds to their breeding grounds and back, all at top speeds of 1.5mph.
Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful @PhilipPullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books
There are two basic truths about Britain’s experience in the past two decades. “The first is that the country has suffered grievously,” @samknightwrites. The second is that “a single party has been responsible.” https://t.co/JKP3PJvl4X
Hate calling stuff out on here, it's so not me, but with my emails now being ignored, I dunno what else to do. I invoiced @RollingStoneUK in early Dec for an interview I did with @rickygervais & @StephenMerchant. It's now nearly April and still no payment https://t.co/3hdTmQXneT