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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Richard Rogers, Catalyst Tom Dyckhoff looks back through the archive at the life and work of Richard Rogers.

4pm TODAY on ⁦‪@BBCRadio4Extra‬⁩

Richard Rogers, Catalyst
Archive on 4

Tom Dyckhoff explores the life and work of Richard Rogers, an architect that changed the face of modern Britain. From 2022.

FLIRTING EROTES, DETAIL OF FOUNTAIN BASIN FROM THE HORTI MÆCENATIANI, C. 10 BCE - 20 CE. CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS What we have here is a pair of Erotes. The one at left is boldly advancing, bow in hand and fluttering drapery in the other, toward the Eros at right, who is exaggeratedly reacting with almost maidenly dismay, so presumably the first Eros is making some sort of indecent proposition to the second one. They're both rather chubby toddlers, but that never stopped Eros. But they are the same person. Is this a delicate allusion to masturbation? If so, we should remember that water was being poured over them from some unknown source, as this was a fountain. A cold shower to dampen the passions, perhaps.

At the centre of the basin is another #relief for #ReliefWednesday, two #Erotes who seem to be flirting with each other. Strictly speaking there is only one #Eros, god of romantic and sexual love, but he seems to have the power of self-multiplication. Is this self-love? #AncientBluesky 🏺

FLUTED BASIN WITH SNAKE-SHAPED HANDLES, C. 10 BCE - 20 CE. CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS The Gardens of Mæcenas were not only gardens, but really a large villa that not only crossed the Republican city walls but actually demolished them and reused their tufo blocks in buildings in the gardens. Mæcenas had a tall structure there known as a tower, which was later said to be the place from which the emperor Nero watched Rome burn in the great fire of 64 CE, as he played his lyre and sang of the fall of Troy, in between efforts to coordinate extinguishing the fire. After the death of Mæcenas in 8 BCE the gardens entered the imperial demesne. This good and faithful serpent in Pentelic marble decorates a huge fluted fountain basin found in 1875. Far from being a threat, it probably represents a protective snake that guarded the shrine of the household gods.

For #ReliefWednesday, a detail or two from an enormous fluted marble basin from a #fountain in the #Horti #Mæcenatiani on the Oppian hill in #Rome, from c. 10 BCE. G. Cilnius #Mæcenas was the last important #Etruscan, a close friend of #Augustus to whom he left his gardens. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Alabaster Assumption of the Virgin, English, 1450 to 1475, for #ReliefWednesday, on display in Norwich Castle. Impressive, but a bit - formulaic? You can imagine the workshop turning these out in relative volume.

The ‘Netherby Genius’ - a relief of a guardian spirit which was found at Netherby, the site of Castra Exploratorum Roman Fort, in Cumbria. The relief is now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #TullieHouseMuseum

A carved stone figure of a skeleton holding an arrow above a basin. In front of it is a banner reading JE VOUS TUE TOUS

This spooky carved relief of Ankou, the Breton personification of death, can found on the ossuary of the church of St Yves in La Roche-Maurice. He holds an arrow and a banner that reads 'JE VOUS TUE TOUS' (I kill you all). #ReliefWednesday

Fragmento de relieve que muestra a un bestiario en la arena (los bestiarios, a menudo criminales condenados y prisioneros de guerra, vestían de gladiadores y eran entrenados para matar a los animales. Siglo I d. C. 🏛️ Museo Británico, Londres 🇬🇧 📷 Stephen Chappell

#ReliefWednesday
Relieve que muestra a un bestiario en la arena (los bestiarios, a menudo criminales condenados y prisioneros de guerra, vestían de gladiadores y eran entrenados para matar a los animales. Siglo I d. C.
🏛️ Museo Británico, Londres 🇬🇧
#RomanArchaeology
#Archaeology
#AncientBluesky

#ReliefWednesday It's Mercury at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle.

Found next to Newcastle upon Tyne Fort.

Mercury is carrying a purse and caduceus symbolising his dual role as god of trade and messenger of the gods.

#AncientBlueSky🏺

1/ Suggested hashtags to join on a Wednesday

#HillfortsWednesday
#NormanWednesday

#EgyptologyWednesday

#ReliefWednesday

#GothicWednesday

#WellsOnWednesday

#WallsOnWednesday

#BrickworkWednesday

#WindowsWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

#Woodensday

1 of 6 #WednesdayHashtags

4pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1978 #Adventure TVfilm🎥 “THE FOUR FEATHERS” directed by Don Sharp from a screenplay by Gerald Di Pego

Based on A.E.W. Mason’s 1902 novel📖

🌟 Beau Bridges, Jane Seymour, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Harry Andrews, Richard Johnson, David Robb

#HillfortsWednesday & Painswick Beacon, Gloucestershire

some galaxy-brain decided to turn the place into a golf course 🙄 but the site had been quarried heavily during medieval times so not in the best shape to begin with.

relax with our extended Hillforts mix:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXl27bFnHw

Photos from the Iron Age ramparts of Hambledon Hill in Dorset on a sunny March afternoon several years back #HillfortsWednesday

Monochrome watercolour giving a view along a ditch flanked by low earthen ramparts, crossed by what appears to be an entrance trackway. Beyond lie the flat farmlands of the Somerset Levels, and further still the hillfort at Portishead, the Severn Estuary, and the coast of South Wales.

"Cadbury Camp, Tickenham, looking North towards Portishead Camp" from Ancient Earthworks & Camps of Somerset (Edward J. Burrow, 1924). #HillfortsWednesday #Archaeology #Prehistory #Watercolour #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #CadburyCamp #Tickenham #Portishead #Somerset

For #HillFortsWednesday - Boyne Bay, Portsoy, a castle site in Moray Scotland. Earlier finds from the promontory hint at an earlier fort or settlement here

An estuary with boats in the foreground, a low stepped headland in the horizon. Under sunny milkly skies

Starting the day desperately trying avoid #HillFortsWednesday with some gentle TV in the form of Mortimer and Whitehouse Gone Fishing.
Imagine then how annoyed I was to have this stunning vista of Hengistbury Head burst into the screen and ruin it all. 😥🏺

#HillfortsWednesday
The Ipf is a mostly treeless mountain near Bopfingen, Baden-Württemberg, #Germany with a hill fort on its top. There are extensive ramparts traversing the slopes. There is evidence of occupation from the #Bronze Age through the #Iron Age.

#History #Archaeology

Reconstruction painting from the air looking down on people gathering within the ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort and in front of a Norman castle and cathedral

It's easy to forget that hillforts had a life after the Iron Age

Here's a fine recreation of significant later activity © Peter Dunn / Historic England

It's Aug 1086 and William I has has brought the landowners of England to Old Sarum #Wiltshire to swear allegiance to him

#HillfortsWednesday

The tiny hillfort of Caer Bach, on a rounded hillock situated near the village of Rowen; in Conwy County, Wales; courtesy of Llywelyn2000. #Cymru #HillfortsWednesday

Slightly blurry shot (like so many of my photos) of a stone and earth bank up the top of Ingleborough which may or may not be a bank from a hill fort. Or something else.

A dodgy shot of one of the banks up the top of Ingleborough for #hillfortsWednesday

Of course there's a (probable) Roman road nearby.

Thankfully it's #HillfortsWednesday 🍻🥳🙀

Here's our fabulous @rcahmwales.bsky.social Sketchfab model of the incredible St David's Head coastal promontory fort in Pembrokeshire, surveyed just before Christmas

The rock terrain created a very special place to live ⛰️

Browse online here: skfb.ly/pFoXw

So admittedly it’s “only” a Bronze Age bowl barrow, so doesn’t quite make the grade for #HillfortsWednesday - but still Win Green clump makes a fine vantage point to watch the sun set on 2025. Happy New Year!

3:30pm TODAY on @Film4

The 1953 #War #Drama film🎥 “SAILOR OF THE KING” directed by Roy Boulting from a screenplay by Valentine Davies

Based on the 1929 novel📖 “Brown on Resolution” by C. S. Forester

🌟 Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller

St Peter’s Church, Dumbleton, Gloucestershire. #woodensday

Wooden screen with holes cut into it of various shapes including circles, crosses and what resembles a church window.

A place for peeping privately upon the holy scene. Elevation squints cut into the rood screen at St Michael’s church at Stanton Harcourt. Fascinating intimacy which puts you right there with people of the past. #Woodensday

The hull of an ancient boat preserved in undersea anaerobic conditions off the north coast of Cyprus, displayed in the museum in Kyrenia Castle. Timbers are present both along and across the length of the boat. The excavation report vol 1 is available printed and digital here: https://www.oxbowbooks.com/9781785707520/the-kyrenia-ship-final-excavation-report/

A display of some of the organic materials found in the hull of the Kyrenia boat: on the left almonds are shown spilling out of a broken pottery vessel, on the right a small vessel with tiny black grains is labelled as fig seeds

A replica of the Kyrenia boat is shown as a cross section: the floor of the hull is included running from end to end, over the structure of the hull and the bracing timbers along the profile. Within are some of the amphorae that were recovered from the ship. These have pointed ends and are stacked against one another to demonstrate how this form of vessel packed closely together could be stationary even on the sea.

#Woodensday
The astonishing Kyrenia ship that traded Rhodes-Cyprus-Levant-?Egypt from c.315 BC.
Sank c.291 BC of N coast of Cyprus packed w goods + equipment that were exceptionally well preserved.
Vol1 of full report of 1967-72 excavation only published 2022, but now also in digital format: see alt

St James Clapham #Yorkshire

The chair, which dates from 1909, looks to be from the Arts and Crafts movement?
The minister's stall is lovely
#Woodensday

Poppyhead bench end with two faces - one upside down on top of the other.

Yes, there can be some amazing medieval work. What was going through the wood carvers mind with this example from Ufford, Cambridgeshire?
I envy your skill. 😊

#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday

Carved wooden figures playing a harp & cymbals.

Cathedral of St Nicholas,
Newcastle, Tyne & Wear

“You can almost hear the music” 🎶🎶🎶

Choir stalls & misericords by cathedral architect R J Johnson & carved by Ralph Hadley -1882.

#Woodensday
#WoodcarvingWednesday

Carved bench end, St Andrew’s church Ashburton, Devon . Not sure of the date
? Nineteenth century?

#woodcarvingwednesday
#woodensday

14th century screen at Holy Trinity Long Itchington.

#screensaturday #woodensday