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Petroc Trelawny

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Presenter BBC Radio 3, author of Trelawny’s Cornwall.

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Some exciting news to share - Petroc Trelawny’s Classical Music Puzzle Book will be published in October. But you can pre-order a copy now from ⁦‪@Waterstones‬⁩ and enjoy a 25% discount. Search ‘Petroc Trelawny’ at waterstones.com

28.07.2025 08:52 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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Delius’s music on In Tune from Bradford today. This is his birthplace - 6 Claremont, and the nearby German Lutheran Church. Join us live from Bradford Live - 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.

11.07.2025 14:47 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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a brilliant reinvention of a once cherished mega-cinema. The auditorium of Bradford Live is pretty impressive. In Tune comes live from here today between 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.

11.07.2025 12:23 — 👍 36    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 3
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Yorkshire Calling ! In Tune live from Bradford this afternoon 1700-1900.

11.07.2025 10:07 — 👍 18    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Free tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) ? Join us at St Mark’s Regent’s Park for music by Elgar, Tomkins, Farnaby, Holst, Tippett, Lloyd and more, interspersed with readings from Trelawny’s Cornwall. 3pm. Admission Free. Maybe see you there ….

28.06.2025 12:03 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Rebecca Evans is a fabulous singer, a real musical star and a lovely person. And she's coming to TRURO ! Hear her with Welsh National Opera & Tomáš Hanus at
Hall for Cornwall on July 12th. With Beethoven's Eroica Symphony in the mix as well ! Will be a great concert.

27.06.2025 11:39 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Are you in London next Sunday ? I’ll be reading from #TrelawnysCornwall in a programme of words/music at St Mark’s Regent’s Park NW1 at 15h00 on 29/6. Free - just turn up. And books on sale too. Penzance, Buxton, Chiswick, Appledore and other appearances ahead. @wnbooks.bsky.social

23.06.2025 08:20 — 👍 16    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Great concert tonight on BBC4 - Vienna Philharmonic at Palais Garnier with guest appearances from guests including Bryn Terrell, Yuja Wang and Rolando
Villazon. I’ll be commentating. 7.30 - or later at BBC iPlayer.

08.06.2025 09:39 — 👍 29    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Lovely afternoon for a visit to Newquay to help open @celticmediafest.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social

03.06.2025 14:04 — 👍 32    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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31.05.2025 13:33 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Paperback of Trelawny’s Cornwall on a granite wall overlooking a field of yellow.

Paperback of Trelawny’s Cornwall on a granite wall overlooking a field of yellow.

Trelawny's Cornwall ... in Cornwall. Join me Cornwall
Museum and Art Gallery at
Truro on Wednesday. A free talk for members at 3pm, and a celebration of Cornwall through objects in the museum's collection at 7pm, with the brilliant @daphneskinnard hosting. Ticket link below @wnbooks.bsky.social

31.05.2025 13:33 — 👍 29    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

all good thank you ! That was a lovely day.

29.05.2025 08:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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spread the word - Trelawny’s Cornwall is out in paperback tomorrow. Order now from your local bookshop. @wnbooks.bsky.social

28.05.2025 06:30 — 👍 66    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 3

The programme includes Gershwin's Summertime, Summer from Four Seasons by Vivaldi & Piazzolla, Beethoven enjoying the countryside in the Pastoral Symphony and much more.

23.05.2025 12:06 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Fancy a sultry evening of smooth summer classics ? I'll be at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester tomorrow evening to host The Hallé Orchestra in concert -
Agata Zając will conduct and leader Roberto Ruisi will be soloist. It's going to be a very special night.

Saturday 24th May 7.30pm

23.05.2025 12:03 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Trelawny's Cornwall is out in paperback on May 29th. Pre-order now from your local bookshop. Meanwhile I'll be appearing at the du Maurier
Fowey Festival this Saturday (May 17th) at 2pm and at the Bude Literary Festival this Sunday (May 18th) at 1pm. Maybe see you there ?

14.05.2025 06:44 — 👍 37    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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another week of great guests BBC Radio 3 In Tune including Jivin' Miss Daisy, Her Ensemble, actor Anton Lesser & conductor David Le Page and violinist Randall Goosby & pianist Zhu Wang. With live music daily ... it's essential listening with Katie Derham & myself.

09.05.2025 17:54 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Great to have Jacqui Dankworth with me on In Tune on BBC Radio 3 this evening. With pianist (and arranger) Charlie Wood, Oli Hayhurst on bass and Sebastian De Krom (drums). Her new album Windmills is out now. She sings Windmills of Your Mind next.

25.04.2025 16:33 — 👍 49    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0
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A Good Friday cross above central London.

18.04.2025 09:19 — 👍 39    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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we welcome Frances Madden and her band to In Tune this afternoon - Rob Updegraff (guitar), Phil Donnelly (bass), Mez Clough (drums) and Amy Sears (backing vocals). Listen live BBC Radio 3 or later BBC Sounds

17.04.2025 16:26 — 👍 29    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Laura and Sarah Ayoub play live on In Tune this afternoon and discuss Scottish/Egyptian musical connections. Already this week we have welcomed to the studio cellist Sterling Elliott & pianist Joseph Havlat and tenor James Way & pianist Natalie Burch. Join us @BBCRadio3

16.04.2025 16:10 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

busy but very satisfying !

16.04.2025 11:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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great to be back here again as The Chaos Quartet rehearse ahead of today’s ⁦‪Wigmore
Hall lunchtime concert. Early Schubert & Britten and a 1960’s masterwork by Ligeti. Live at 13h00 ⁦‪BBC Radio 3‬⁩

14.04.2025 10:51 — 👍 31    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Inside the In Tune studio - Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton soundcheck. They will play Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Casals just before 6.30 live ⁦‪on BBC Radio 3‬⁩

11.04.2025 17:12 — 👍 36    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Martin Feinstein and his eponymous ensemble are rehearsing in the In Tune studio. They play Bach and Telemann on air today from five @BBCRadio3 Great guests already this week incl. Sir Mark Elder, Hayoung Choi & Alim Beisembayev and Freddie Ballentine & Kunal Lahiry.

09.04.2025 15:27 — 👍 36    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
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The new office … In Tune on air at 5pm at BBC Radio 3 with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, conductor@Sir Mark Elder and pianist TianXu An

07.04.2025 15:55 — 👍 77    🔁 7    💬 8    📌 0
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Anna Tilbrook asks us to sing along as we cross a rainbow, Bach writes a cantata for a new regime, Hannah Peel surveys a dusty nebula, Britten salutes Young Apollo, Brenda Wootton at Lamorna, Ned Rorem's breakfast & a hydrophone.

04.04.2025 05:35 — 👍 97    🔁 6    💬 49    📌 5
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Last early morning commute …

04.04.2025 04:57 — 👍 137    🔁 4    💬 29    📌 5
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Good Morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live - Wagner helps Thomas Hampson sing to an evening star, Steven Osborne takes on the challenge of Ravel’s Waltz, to the open water with Britten and gentler ripples as Mengyiyi Chen plays a Barcarolle by Mel Bonis.

03.04.2025 05:34 — 👍 45    🔁 3    💬 5    📌 1

I am sure Tom will have some brilliant and exciting topics of conversation - and new weather locations. Hope you can listen to In Tune on occasion.

02.04.2025 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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