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Antaine Mac Aoidh

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Gaeilgeoir agus léiritheoir raidió ar Pick of the Week agus Loose Ends go huaireanta (BBC Radio 4). You sometimes hear me wishing you a good night on Radio Ulster. Cé go n-oibrím don BBC, is iad tuairimí s'agamsa 🏳️‍🌈 sé/é - he/him

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Not CMAT having Dustin in her pre-concert playlist I can’t

09.03.2026 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well this is no Sophie Ellis-Bextor is it

31.12.2025 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Incredibly sad. Her on Out of Doors this year made me weep. ❤️ Such a brilliant life.

30.12.2025 11:15 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Digital copy of the original linocut print of the strawboy design (black and white, crosshatched background, featuring someone wearing the straws, with a wren on each side)

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

Digital copy of the original linocut print of the strawboy design (black and white, crosshatched background, featuring someone wearing the straws, with a wren on each side) #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

Happy Wran's Day!

The Wren, or Lá An Dreoilín, is still strong in parts of Ireland (notably Kerry), with elements entwined with nature and the pagan roots of this time of year.

"Up with the kettle
And down with the pan
Give us a penny to bury the wran"

Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

26.12.2025 08:32 — 👍 232    🔁 71    💬 5    📌 3

The whole episode is available there to listen (all 97 minutes of it!) at 1pm today! #audio #radio

25.12.2025 10:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Year, Pick of the Year 2025 (Parts 1&2) Jeanette Winterson presents a selection of audio highlights from 2025 across the BBC.

Merry Christmas everyone! This is my Christmas gift to you - the gift of audio (or at least one half)

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

25.12.2025 10:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This was an unexpected weekend treat.
It’s always good to be on BBC Radio Shropshire even at very short notice.

30.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 36    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Scout Tzofiya Bolton Scout Tzofiya Bolton presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

What a great Pick of the Week from @scouttzofiya.bsky.social with cod-slam poetry, the word 'cistension', the sound of agoraphobia, Walt Whitman, Johnny Cash, an introduction to musique concrète and a closing snippet of strangeness from LINTD: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

18.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

*steps on it again* …not just what we do, but how we’re meant to be doing it and the reason behind why we do things. I feel this week’s encapsulates that a lot in so may different ways.

15.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And let’s face it, it’s been a difficult week for us (read between the lines) but if there’s any week I’d suggest listening to PotW, to see the value and the merit of public service broadcasting - what gets me up in the morning - now’s the week to do it. And now I’ll jump off my overturned soap box

15.11.2025 11:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Illuminated - The Ballad of Scout and the Alcohol Tag - BBC Sounds A poetic meditation on alcohol, psychosis, crime and prison.

And if you liked Scout’s picks, I’d also recommend the Illuminated they feature in, one of my fave docs from last year: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

15.11.2025 11:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Pick of the Week - Scout Tzofiya Bolton - BBC Sounds Scout Tzofiya Bolton presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

This week, we hand the mic and the radio schedule to @scouttzofiya.bsky.social - a really lovely mix of poetry, music, and powerful interviews. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

15.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

...........................................Hornet?

27.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 106    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

I’m covering the Stephen Nolan show on 5 Live tonight (10-1) and feeling extremely betrayed by the clock change

26.10.2025 20:54 — 👍 24    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0
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The Meeting.

Harry Clarke stained glass.

National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks Dublin. #Art #Bluesky #Áras25

25.10.2025 04:17 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, Brian Bilston, Chris Smither, Teresa Livingstone, Jolene O'Hara, Stick in the Wheel, AOIBHA Clive Anderson with chat, music and comedy from the Belfast International Arts Festival.

I had the pleasure of being on this week’s Loose Ends, recorded in Belfast, talking about my upcoming tour with The Catenary Wires. Loved listening to my fellow guests, with some great live music thrown in.

Here’s a link to our episode: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

19.10.2025 10:39 — 👍 42    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1

Hi Juliet, sorry it was a surprise but glad you were happy it is. Found it incredibly moving, thank you for sharing with the world.

12.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, James Crawford James Crawford presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

My PICK OF THE WEEK!
Mexican gothic, railways, distortion, immortalists, unfolding landscapes & JMW Turner ft @petroc.bsky.social, @silviamg.bsky.social, @kermodemovie.bsky.social, @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social, @alekskrotoski.bsky.social, @adamrutherford.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

05.10.2025 18:37 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 1
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Pick of the Week - James Crawford - BBC Sounds James Crawford presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

Pick of the Week with @jdcrawf.bsky.social now available on BBC Sounds - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

05.10.2025 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

slurping some chicken soup on this shaky double decker like it’s some sort of sippee cup. Loud music no headphones isn’t the death of public transport etiquette, it’s ME and I am ashamed. Please excommunicate me

16.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Robin Ince Robin Ince presents a weekly selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

Wrestling, a tale of survival and Stewart Lee in a jacuzzi: all with @robinince.bsky.social and his choices for Pick of the Week this evening at 1815 on R4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... w/ @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @youngfathers.bsky.social and more #audio #radio

14.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi Elaine! BBC Sounds is no longer available outside of the UK but as far as I’m aware Pick of the Week is still available to listen back to on BBC.com as it’s Radio 4!

07.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

which I own by the way and will never stop reminding people 👍🏻

07.09.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ll pitch this in my pair of woolly legs and horns if I need this to happen!!!

07.09.2025 11:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

right satyr/faun experts where we at I have radio proposals to WRITE!!! ✍️ (also no satyr emoji yet shame on you Unicode)

07.09.2025 11:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Naomi Alderman Naomi Alderman presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

Pinner, Polyphemus and a posthumous postcard; all in Pick this evening at 1815, presented by @naomialderman.bsky.social w/ @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @nataliehaynes.bsky.social @elainefeeney.bsky.social and more www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

07.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
“Dungeons and Dragons: Only a Game?” in a cool fantasy typeface with cool black and white insert art of a spooky castle, a dragon breathing fire, and a sword. It looks like an unofficial third-party small press D&D supplement from 1981. Tell me more about this game!

“Dungeons and Dragons: Only a Game?” in a cool fantasy typeface with cool black and white insert art of a spooky castle, a dragon breathing fire, and a sword. It looks like an unofficial third-party small press D&D supplement from 1981. Tell me more about this game!

“What is D&D? After extensive research, the Christian Life Ministries concludes: 'DUNGEONS & DRAGONS instead of a game is a teaching on demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, Satan worship, gambling, Jungian psychology, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and many more teachings, brought to you in living color direct from the pit of Hell!!!'"

“What is D&D? After extensive research, the Christian Life Ministries concludes: 'DUNGEONS & DRAGONS instead of a game is a teaching on demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, Satan worship, gambling, Jungian psychology, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and many more teachings, brought to you in living color direct from the pit of Hell!!!'"

“Other FRP Games: New games are being created, more sophisticated and cruel than the original D&D, such as RuneQuest, Chivalry & Sorcery, Arduin Grimoire, Tunnels and Trolls, etc."

“Other FRP Games: New games are being created, more sophisticated and cruel than the original D&D, such as RuneQuest, Chivalry & Sorcery, Arduin Grimoire, Tunnels and Trolls, etc."

The Pro Family Forum’s early 80s Satanic Panic pamphlet "Dungeons and Dragons: Only a Game?” has it all:
- a great cover
- a description of D&D guaranteed to entice 14 year olds
- a list of other, “more sophisticated and cruel" fantasy TTRPGs to try

06.09.2025 00:18 — 👍 156    🔁 55    💬 17    📌 20
Scragged looking man with beard wearing glasses. On a train.

Scragged looking man with beard wearing glasses. On a train.

Rarity. Enterprise selfie 🤳

06.09.2025 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am looking for a parent and fresher to chat to for Money Box Live next Wednesday. In my Ideal Radio Dream World, you’d be willing to audio record yourselves with a phone out shopping for uni stuff at eg supermarket or Ikea.
Felicity.hannah@bbc.co.uk is my email - please share if you know someone

02.09.2025 10:55 — 👍 8    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 0

Can attest as someone who gets the luck of hearing everything a week in advance - this is 👌

02.09.2025 08:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0