Matt Leys

Series 2 of THE ABERGELE FILES is now all on Sounds. Chilli cartels, stolen Caravaggios, Los Locos Berserkos and the Minister of Defence's sex slave. Yeah, it's all there www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Come on Israel, give us the treble

Audible have been doing original full-cast dramas for years. Proper ones with actual scripts. I wrote one which came out (almost exactly) five years ago. The HP ones are just the books again with famous actors reading the dialogue, that's not radio drama. www.amazon.co.uk/Car-Crash/dp...

Good news from Serbia, where the policy of “we’re not the current lot” has worked for Student List just as it did for Biden in 2020 and Labour in 2024. How their candidates will rule with no political experience will be interesting.

The government has renewed longstanding advice in disaster preparedness, with a bit more energy than usual because lots of cyber stuff atm, bit of Russia, and particularly el Niño. Have you seen the weather this weekend? The media is doing loads of coverage because you're clicking it.

Lovely bit of parking there, well done

£200

Watched a horror film, a useful reminder of why I never watch horror films

read all your "jokes" about the clocks changing, that's an hour of my life I will get back

My commitment to Wong Kei being tested to the limit by queuing at a cashpoint in the rain behind people who seem to have never used one before

@rogerquimbly.bsky.social I see you're making t shirts now

London is full of people with golf umbrellas, the pedestrian equivalent of a massive fuck off SUV

It's the weekend, it's miserable and wet out there, I strongly recommend you get the kettle on, get this in your ears and do some laughing

How will we know if circus posters use AI? They’ve always been like this. THEY STARTED IT.

Sharks

One for the ages pokingatthings.substack.com/p/poking-at-...

But wait it's all NATO's fault right

One of the greats

No idea why, but I just remembered the time I had to check verbatim responses to a survey and they turned into the inner monologue of someone battling their demons.

Watch out for Storm Jasmine Allen

Hate to tell you this, Today, but Blue Planet doesn't really work on the radio

holy shit this is actually brilliant

RIP Tom Skerritt, 1933-2026

When the charts were brilliant

Suddenly remembered the existence of Kemp Folds kempfolds.blogspot.com

BLOOMERS www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's Thursday. It's The Abergele Files. BBC Sounds.

It's that time every few years when people say gubernatorial #gubernatorial

It is very, very — exceedingly — funny to consider a 21-year-old's political support over "nearly a decade." Perhaps especially when he still looks 11.

Oh wow all these years I thought humanitarian meant something else

From this article: www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Also, the stuff on Radio4 Extra will NOT remain on Sounds when the service is scrapped. A repeat of my audio drama on the station remained for just 30 days on Sounds, as it had when broadcast on R4. It's not available anywhere now cough. www.mixcloud.com/espeee/the-h...

Please read my lil exposé of what AI is doing to property listings. Estate agents are jazzing up the photos without declaring it so now they all look identical - these three ‘photos‘ are of entirely different properties: heawood.substack.com/p/its-the-de...

A heads up in case you missed it - the next batch of tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry (for bookings Jan - Mar 2027) go on sale at 10am today

This is disgusting. But even though this is presumably what Trump wanted to happen, seems inevitable (and indeed desirable) that control over where Starlink operates will be taken over by the US government. Absolutely insane that Musk could make this decision privately.

The death of Radio 4 Extra is a very, very sad day. I am genuinely upset by this decison.

God this is depressing

For people wondering why The Canary has come to grief, I have an example. In April, I was due to cover the trial of the men eventually convicted of arson offences against then-PM Sir Keir Starmer. The trial was listed to start on April 27. But it started with two days' jury selection and legal stuff

Donald Trump canceled his scheduled Oct. 16 deposition in his lawsuit against the BBC because of "matters of national importance." The BBC alerts the judge that those matters were: a rally in Dalton, Ga. and a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.