Alasdair Beckett-King

👑ALERT! ALERT!👑 I've just added extra UK tour dates for my my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show King of Crumbs. From Sept-Nov 2026 I'll be coming to NEW places with the SAME jokes. Hop on my autumnal leg! www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs

2 weeks from now, you could be in London connecting with narrative and adventure game fans, developers, and industry professionals at #AdvX26! Less than 10% of tickets left. Make your plans for a great weekend of your favorite games and game devs now: www.tickettailor.com/events/adven...

When I was a kid, I constantly daydreamed about doing animation, and I was bitterly envious of kids on TV doing rubbish animations with 8mm film cameras. And now it's so easy and cheap for young people to have a go. Not everyone has a smartphone or a laptop, but it's SO much more accessible now.

In response to changing viewing habits, the BBC announces that it will continue making television, but not show it to anyone.

Look at that. I'm so deeply in-character that their screams make different mouth-shapes. Wow. Is there an acting award for that?

The name Sudowrite shows how well they know their target users. How many working writers will get a reference to the Unix command versus how many will be repulsed and offended by the idea of pseudo-writing?

They call him "Spooky" Mulder. You wouldn't like him, he's very good-looking and mysterious.

they are lightweights. everybody online has been yelled at by a teenager. didn't turn the rest of us into nazis

It is NOT easy to get into a good Almshouse these days.

I haven't made a clip from our Goosebumps episode yet, so please enjoy me and @eleanormorton.bsky.social listening to the much-missed Tim Curry singing the Worst Song from the Worst Witch: More episodes: linktr.ee/readthat

If closing surely the least expensive radio channel the BBC has (run by a tiny number of people, broadcasting the work of mainly dead people), bothers you, then why not sign this petition you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

We did a whole episode about Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask and forgot to talk about the unauthorised drag parody Goosehumps. If you can forgive this oversight, the Halloween episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That is out now! Subscribe! linktr.ee/readthat @eleanormorton.bsky.social

Druid Loving This Cloak Weather https://theonion.com/druid-loving-this-cloak-weather/

I was watching, in New Zealand [on YouTube] this evening. I had to pause the show to listen to my dearly beloved wife. Very disturbing.

This month's episode of @eleanormorton.bsky.social & Alasdair Read That will be a wee bit later than usual, because we want it to be as scary as possible for Halloween (which is actually Scottish, apparently). Subscribe to the pod to hear it as soon as I finish the edit... linktr.ee/readthat

The make-up artists on Mock the Week have taken decades off me. I don't look a day over 110. Join me and a lovely panel tonight at 9pm on tlc!

An Ofcom-approved update to the Englishmen, Irishman, Scotsman joke.

Here's a writing tip: ask a trusted friend to read the first draft of something before sharing it with the wider world.

Hey, authors, illustrators, poets, etc in the UK and Ireland! I’ve put together a statement in support of Sally Rooney with the help of others. Message me if you’d like to sign?

The Heir of the Dog has a *brilliant* cast, featuring the voices of @misterhowlett.bsky.social, @shaunmendum.bsky.social, @sallybeaumont.bsky.social, @pabosher.com, @misterabk.bsky.social, @roguespirit.bsky.social and more. Spot any of your favourite #voiceover actors here? #WishlistWednesday

That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.

Anyway, let's enjoy the original ending of Little Shop, about how America is a stupid country full of grasping consumerist jerks.

Finally, we get to hear her side of the story.

Mitch Benn presents Gilbert & Sullivan’s DRACULA Lost for 120 years, restored, recreated and completely made up by MITCH BENN STRICTLY LIMITED RUN - FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY 24/25 October www.tickettailor.com/events/circl... #dracula #gilbertandsullivan #operetta #mitchbenn

Who's the rebooted private dick who also provides emotional support to all the chicks?

I say, that's quite an invitation! Please share far and wide to those of a journalistic persuasion. 🎩 Key requests via social media and email will be entertained. #indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev #pointandclick #adventuregame

I know hotels use vinegar to get smells out of towels, but could we come up with something that gets the smell of VINEGAR out of towels? It's like drying myself off with a chippy.

This morning we're discussing what it means to be ethnically English. Coming up later we tackle the climate change debate and for today's phone-in we're asking "How much arsenic should you give a child?" Let us know what you think. But first, what happens if I put my entire head into this dark hole?

Right, people of Hastings… make your minds up are you coming or not? As the numbers stand with that show I’m going to have to pull it. I’ll decide tomorrow… the show is on Wednesday and it’s not viable on current numbers so if you’re coming - please book. www.lauralexx.co.uk/live