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SOLO: Five musicians offer an intimate, soloist’s-eye-view of some of classical music’s masterpieces. Tonight, 21.45 @BBCRadio3 trumpet player Matilda Lloyd is rehearsing Haydn's Trumpet Concerto 🎺 Produced by Zerlina Vulliamy for BBC Audio Wales www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Recently discovered the work of Julie Wolfthorn in the Berlinische Galerie. A co-founder of the Berlin Secession, she was transported to the Terezin concentration camp #otd 1942, where she determinedly kept working. She died there in Dec 1944, aged 80.

SOLO: five musicians offer a soloist’s-eye-view of some of classical music’s masterpieces. Tonight, acclaimed Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe demonstrates his approach to Rodrigo's Three Spanish Pieces 21.45 @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds Producer Martin Williams www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Seeing John Berger: an audio sketch of the influential artist & writer in his centenary year. Told through the words of friends & collaborators including Geoff Dyer & Sally Potter. #WaysOfSeeing 4pm Tues 27 Oct @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Producer Martin Williams www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Solo 21.45 Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 In this new series, five musicians offer an intimate, soloist’s-eye-view of some of classical music’s masterpieces. Tonight, violinist Thomas Mathias on Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. 🎻Producer Ellie Ajao @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The virtuoso Clara Schumann and her circle are the focus of Composer of the Week with Donald Macleod. Today, Robert Schumann is entranced from the moment he first hears her play the piano. Mon-Fri 4pm @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds Producer Alice McKee www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Iris Murdoch, Walt Whitman & Marghanita Laski. The perfect dinner party? Or another episode of A Good Read 3pm Mon 26 Oct @BBCRadio4 with @lucykellaway.bsky.social John Bird & @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Eliza Lomas. Whole series @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you're in need of some uplift... The Malago is a small, overlooked river in #Bristol. But now, a group of locals have come together to write songs for it. Songs with stories to tell. Songs for the Malago 19.00 Sun 25 Oct @BBCRadio3 Producer Becky Ripley #songwriting www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

1853, Düsseldorf. A nervous young composer calls at the home of Robert & Clara Schumann. Ep 29 At Home, Among Friends. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @katewilliamsme.bsky.social 1pm Sat 24 Oct. Listen now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“They say Cod Reynolds came back from the dead. Here's what I know...” A contemporary fisherman's yarn from Cornish writer Callum Mitchell. Short Works: Hand of Cod 3.45pm Fri 23 Oct @BBCRadio4 Produced by John Norton #newwriting #Cornwall www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Chorus Girls by Jeanne Mammen, #Berlin (1928/29), Berlinische Galerie

Aberfan: Tip Number Seven. Produced by Maria David & Andy Fry with sound design by Catherine Robinson, narrated by Hannah Daniel for @BBCSounds @BBCRadioWales #Aberfan60 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

'A haaaandbaaaag?' Roleplay looks at Oscar Wilde's redoubtable Lady Bracknell in the company of actors who've played the role: Sian Phillips, Gillian Bevan, Gyles Brandreth & opera singer Henry Waddington. Producer Kirsten Locke 4pm @BBCRadio4 Tues 20 Oct or @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read 📚 Writers Raymond Antrobus & @guygunaratne.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social to recommend favourite books by Saou Ichikawa, Annie Ernaux & Rachel Kushner 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds Producer Sally Heaven www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Smetana mans the barricades on the Charles Bridge in Prague during the 1848 uprising. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music. Composing a Country. With Gillian Moore & @katewilliamsme.bsky.social Producer Megan Jones 1pm or find now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read is back! Writers Andrea Wulf & Selina Brown join @harriettsg.bsky.social to choose 3 books they love. From ethnography to male eating disorders to tough mothering. Also singing the praises of @readingagency 3pm Mon 12 Oct @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music, Ep 27: A #Birmingham Oratorio with Gillian Moore & @katewilliamsme.bsky.social 1pm Sat 10 Oct. Producer David Fay @thecbso.bsky.social @bmusicltd.bsky.social @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social Listen here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Tonight on In Concert 7.30pm @BBCRadio3 a fantastic concert from BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Johanna Malangre allied to Key Changes, our Essential History of Classical Music. Music on themes of Protest, Power & Resistance. Presented by Gillian Moore www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Mother Courage is the subject of today’s Roleplay 4pm @BBCRadio4 looking at some of the great dramatic roles. Fiona Shaw, Maggie Steed, Michelle Terry, Liz Carr & Ursula Yovich on what it’s like to play #Brecht’s complex protagonist. Producer Eliza Lomas. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Travel to La Serenissima with Composer of the Week Mon-Fri 4pm @bbcradio3 as Donald Macleod explores the explosion of music making in C16th #Venice, led by Adrien Willaert and the composers of the Venetian School. Producer Sam Phillips. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street #otd. Mosley Must Fall by Martin McNamara tells the story of an Irish family divided as British fascists prepare to march. Directed by Anne Isger & starring Stephen Hogan, Maggie Cronin & Joseph Ayre @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

1832: Ballet En Pointe 🩰 Key Changes: @BBCRadio3's Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @katewilliamsme.bsky.social 1pm Sat 3 Oct or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Megan Jones #ballet #dance #history #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Glory days: so proud of the boss team behind Legend: The Bruce Springsteen Story @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds - Gold award winners, Arts & Culture, British Podcast Awards 🏆 @ladymissbarton.bsky.social @quietguynoises.bsky.social Mair Bosworth & Eliza Lomas. Listen here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood    And the mussel pooled and the heron-            Priested shore…       ‘Poem in October’ by Dylan Thomas bit.ly/2LCkbTy

21 years of the BBC National Short Story Award, which has done so much to champion the form. Spearheaded by the indefatigable Di Speirs. The winner will be announced live on Front Row 7.15pm tonight @BBCRadio4 Listen to the shortlist here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Composer of the Week with Donald Macleod explores the life & work of Cyril Scott (1879-1970) - English composer, writer, poet and occultist. Mon-Fri 4pm @BBCRadio3 & @BBCSounds Producer Luke Whitlock www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Men become mortal the night their fathers die.’ Welsh poet and physician Dannie Abse born in Cardiff #otd 1923. Portrait by Josef Herman, National Museum Wales www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/thre...

1777: Chilgrove. Ring-ousels on the downs on their autumnal visit. Lapwings about on the downs attended by starlings; few stone-curlews. Sweet Italian skies. The foliage of the beeches remarkably decayed & rusty.

Playing with Fire 🎻🔥Delighted to welcome @katewilliamsme.bsky.social to the next instalment of Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore 1pm Sat 19 Sept or listen now @BBCSounds Producer David Fay www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?’ Not Christopher Nolan but Christopher Marlowe. Just 3 days left to listen to Doctor Faustus @BBCSounds - the ultimate example of monstrous vanity & short-termist thinking. John Heffernan & Pearl Mackie star. #theatre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

…button after button
Sprang off and fell in a trail
Between the Underground & the Albert Hall. Honeymooning, mooning around, late for the Proms,
Our echoes die in that corridor and now
I come as Hansel came on the moonlit stones
Retracing the path back -Seamus Heaney #bbcproms

‘I took my love, I took it down…’ Landslide by Fleetwood Mac is today’s Soul Music 1030am @BBCRadio4 Written by Stevie Nicks in 1973 on the cusp of huge change in her life, for many it has become an anthem of quiet courage. Producer Eliza Lomas @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Eighth of September …This day our bodies grew stretched out to Earth’s limits, orbited there, melded there to one globe of wax, or a meteor’s flame. A strange door opened, between us, and someone, with no face as yet, waited for us there. - Pablo #Neruda transl A S Kline

The Villa Forgotten. Very excited to tell you about this new commission for @BBCRadio4 - a chilling tale by Jeanette Winterson 22.45 Mon-Fri or find @BBCSounds Producer Fay Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘-The history of the world, my sweet… Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat -And, Mr. Todd, too, Mr. Todd Who gets to sell!’ Stephen #Sondheim is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 with Donald Macleod 4pm Mon-Fri Producer @rosieboulton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A theft. A shyster showman. And a new era of marvellous machines. Music meets the age of engineering. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama 1pm or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

“Oh the Summer time is coming. And the trees are sweetly blooming…” Wild Mountain Thyme - also known as Will Ye Go Lassie Go? is the subject of Soul Music 10.30am Sat 5 Sept @BBCRadio4 Musicians & fans share personal stories connected to the song. Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...