jon gisby

Media, tech, music, art & family. From Cambridge to Canada, via @WildBrainHQ, @WildBrain_spark, @britscreenforum & @cammusicfest

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@CUSChorus @Ely_Cathedral @CamUniCMP I have at least one ticket spare for tomorrow night. DM me for details, or drop me an email at [email protected]

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@TLRailUK Thanks. It would have helped to announce that, and inform the staff at the info desk (“Great Northern don’t tell us about crew shortage so I can’t advise you”)

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@TLRailUK any news on when the 10.14 from Cambridge will leave?

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@lloydshep @moongolfer ….and Agatha Christie’s typewriter

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A UK map of crime book settings at the “murder by the book exhibition at Cambridge university library. Paging @lloydshep and @moongolfer

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Paging @henrywarren @OliBarrett

[Tony Blair Institute for Global Change @InstituteGC]

“Early education - it’s so critical to development and if they don’t get it, they’re always playing catch up.” 

Watch Tony Blair speaking at @earlychildhood’s #ShapingUs National Symposium, hosted by @KensingtonRoyal: https://t.co/TiPdC9ychK

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@susie_dent @mariemarie0 Interesting. We were told that whim-whams were for grinding smoke

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Interviewing Lord Grade at British Screen Forum event tomorrow covering his new remit as Chair at Ofcom. We'll cover online safety, impartiality in news, VOD regulation and the way forward for Public Service Broadcasting. Drop me a message if there's anyt…https://t.co/A05AileNeR

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The next episode of Lens is up, and I'm delighted to be joined by two industry veterans who were my predecessors as Chair of British Screen Forum. Adam Singer was one of the pioneers of payTV in the UK and around the world before becoming deputy Chair of…https://t.co/GzQPIcTBHG

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An overdue post for Episode 5 of Lens in which I talk to Ed Richards. Ed has multiple perspectives on Public Service Broadcasting having been Controller of Corporate Strategy at the BBC under Lord Birt, then a Senior Policy Adviser at No 10 under Tony Bla…https://t.co/9cNku8Z9ex

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Great job with a cracking team! #makelifemagic #punchdrunk https://t.co/Lp0Ef0pAl2

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The last political and economic crisis of this scale led to reactionary creativity that produced Monty Python and Bowie, amongst others. Maybe something to look forward to.#brightsideoflife

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Hosting a round table on priorities for screen sector growth with Bill Esterson MP, Shadow Business Minister. Drop me a message if you've got any questions for him. #britishscreenforum #creativeeconomy #screensectors

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When DCMS consulted about the future of Channel 4 it didn't follow its usual process and publish the names of those who'd submitted a response, nor any non-confidential submissions it received from them. So the British Screen Forum submitted an FOI reques…https://t.co/UzjCc5l2Ug

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Starting next week there's a free MOOC on NFT's and the Metaverse, which will be taught entirely within virtual classrooms inside OM, an open metaverse platform. Registration requires minting an NFT, so don't leave it too late. Hop…https://t.co/yaMmqdidtA https://t.co/PnaVJFkOkx

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A bit of catching up for those who haven’t heard it. Episode 5 of Lens is now available in which I talk all things Public Service Broadcasting with James Purnell. James was head of strategy at the BBC under Lord Birt before becoming an MP and Secretary of…https://t.co/hnwHRKUrSD

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Meanwhile…

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

The #US Embassy in #Moscow urged its citizens to leave #Russia immediately.

Earlier, Bulgaria, Poland and Estonia asked their citizens to leave Russia.

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Catching up after recent events...there's a new episode of Lens where I'm in conversation with Lord Puttnam, who has been at the heart of successive debates about public service broadcasting. He argues passionately that PSB is part of the social contract…https://t.co/cwqoe7FwBw

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@robjohns75 @uniessexgovt One trivial thing I'd like to know: what does everybody bring along to eat and drink? I was in the queue for 8 hours on Thursday and I've never seen so much tupperware!

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Michelle Donelan is the 10th Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since August 2012. I can't think of another Cabinet level role that's had this level of turnover, and it's damaging at a time of unprecedented growth and disruption in t…https://t.co/kC6EDc97qg