Creative enterprises researcher. Audio drama writer https://www.podchaser.com/creators/richard-h-brooks-107ag4BPdw Writing for Vanishment; 11th Hour Audio Challenge; Earbud Theatre https://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3mb4w5tk4622rThis Christmas season, from Vanishment. The Lights of Wychywood A haunting tale, set in 1920s England. Two Girl Guides awake in a dark forest to discover their whole camp has disappeared. One knows the secret. Only one will escape. Available here https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UKxvrKSPkc4SR4vcu8TiH?si=c8f9657d016d47de29 Dec 2025 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb4w5tk4622rhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3m5e2ezpwh22yI've increasingly been a fan of protectionism for Europe in the digital economy. The problem is we see it like the industrial economy - you can compete with TV, car brands and the consumer gets the benefit. The social media economy are monopolies - FB is a monopoly. X only works if it is a monopoly.11 Nov 2025 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5e2ezpwh22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3m42mi6ozlk2uWhen I was young, society was geographical. You knew where people lived, either in person or thru the phone book. Then it became electronic, you knew close friends on FB and broader society on Twitter. Now it's neither. FB, X etc are mediated by ads, pay-to-play algorithms. Soon it will be AI.26 Oct 2025 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3m42mi6ozlk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3m42kj3o3b22sIt blows my mind how bad X has become. Twitter was great, if flawed. It really did connect the world, but over time it developed a pile-on culture that needed changing. Musk arrives and it's now a one-way super highway for misinformation and crack-pot conspiracies. Its a staggering cultural loss.25 Oct 2025 23:35 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3m42kj3o3b22shttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lqkncvyhc222For summer, a haunting and powerful audio drama you won't forgot in a while. A Haunting Beyond the Lake. Vanishment Podcast vanishment.podbean.com/e/a-haunting...01 Jun 2025 16:05 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqkncvyhc222https://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lnt67szczk2wMy #AudioDrama tip for today is: Dragon Day on Audible by @bobproehl.bsky.social . I quibbled with some of the characters at the start, but the monologue descriptions wonderfully accomplished and the interview style was a very imaginative approach to audio drama. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Dragon-Day-Audiobook/B0DYKSCKY7?eac_link=5KaIwJN9tXHz&ref=web_search_eac_asin_1&eac_selected_type=asin&eac_selected=B0DYKSCKY7&qid=V7EdDLAALJ&eac_id=260-1967756-2896320_V7EdDLAALJ&sr=1-127 Apr 2025 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnt67szczk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lmrywbgqak2dIn the UK at least, and probably for much of the West, the '90s was probably the peak of prosperity where the opportunities were the highest and basic needs like housing were still obtainable. And yet it produced some of best misery music ever, Radiohead, Portishead, Evanescene. Why?14 Apr 2025 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmrywbgqak2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lleuml3wx225Reading about some of the tech reasons societies are moving to the far right: People increasingly matter less. Less needed to win wars, less needed for productivity. Tech is making some people redundant, tech moguls see society as a series of fixes, ppl become more isolated from common experiences.27 Mar 2025 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lleuml3wx225https://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lh5hbbrs322fhttps://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/jan25/listen-in Something for audio folk in the Oxford vicinity.01 Feb 2025 21:26 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh5hbbrs322fhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3ldbagjdbts25A mother says goodbye to her son. A brother announces his marriage. A guy calls up his crush. None of them know it’s the last time they ever talk. But others have been listening... and in space you’re never truly gone vanishment.podbean.com/e/short-spec... https://Vanishment.podbean.com/e/short-spectral-echoes/14 Dec 2024 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldbagjdbts25https://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3ld7fed3ir22nComing soon, a new audio collaboration 'Spectral Echoes' with singer, song-writer and composer Freyja Elsy More very soon...! www.freyjaelsy.co.uk https://www.freyjaelsy.co.uk13 Dec 2024 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld7fed3ir22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lcsdfzek5c2hI think I would enjoyed life in the 1920s when nobody actually worked, they just participated in extravagantly complicated homicides in claustrophobic country houses between cream teas and Pimms Currently enjoying The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0DJBZC219?source_code=ASSORAP051116000708 Dec 2024 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcsdfzek5c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lcbdqmohjc2oIsn't it weird how climate change is getting increasingly urgent and consequential but occupies less attention in the media? Was it just that the politics was better in the 90s or that people had more interest in bigger issues, does social media make the concept more contested?01 Dec 2024 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcbdqmohjc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3lbugc3cbzc2gIt's quite a weird and refreshing experience being followed by people on BlueSky by people who really look like they are actually alive in real life.26 Nov 2024 16:08 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbugc3cbzc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3kiamvq3ygu2aI like this quote. It took me a bit of time to work out he's probably talking metaphorically, but I think both interpretations work. #AmWriting #AudioDrama05 Jan 2024 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3kiamvq3ygu2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/richardhbrooks.bsky.social/post/3kia5kr4hlu22Is it wrong, but I really want to be on this list.05 Jan 2024 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:cho7wukdtzdpfexev2ccrnil/app.bsky.feed.post/3kia5kr4hlu22