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Freya Hellier

@freyahellier.bsky.social

I make radio & podcasts about music, society, sex + culture, ex @bbcradio3. Scottish, parent, crap pianist, hopeful accordionist. Producing some of Screenshot on BBC Radio 4, Menopause Unmuted, + Everything Jazz https://linktr.ee/freyahellier

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Pathways through the moviesphere lit by the Uber Ushers @ellenejones.bsky.social & @kermodemovie.bsky.social

02.05.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Doppelgangers Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore the world of doppelgangers on screen.

I'm overdue a catch up...been busy doing lots of stuff including this episode of #Screenshot on doppelgangers and clones.
Psyche bending stuff with Richard Ayoade, a history lesson from Prof. Monster @adamgolub.bsky.social & acting secrets from Martha Byrne
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

02.05.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.

TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.

13.01.2025 10:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3040    πŸ” 1399    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 637

thanks for this info, I was wondering what that chimney was part of

08.01.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character is laying in a bed with a pillow and a blue blanket . ALT: a cartoon character is laying in a bed with a pillow and a blue blanket .

For those of us lucky enough to have had a proper break over Christmas: good luck getting to sleep tonight. The exhausting familiarity of reality will resume shortly

05.01.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The sun is shining low and bright in a bright blue sky. The Glasgow skyline is visible in the distance

The sun is shining low and bright in a bright blue sky. The Glasgow skyline is visible in the distance

Rays of Light over Glasgow

03.01.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I also watched this last night and loved it. I'm interested to know where you felt it was flawed?

02.01.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was up there too today - what a cracker of a day it's been. happy new year!

02.01.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it really is a fantastic piece of work

20.12.2024 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Albums Of The Year 2024 - Everything Jazz Discover the definitive 2024 jazz albums of the year, chosen by our expert team of Everything Jazz writers - from exciting new albums by contemporary artists to groundbreakingΒ archival discoveries and...

My album of the year for @everythingjazz.bsky.social is @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's wonderful Technically Acceptable
Read the full collection of writer's picks from the year....
www.everythingjazz.com/story/our-al...

20.12.2024 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Douglas Gordon’s nod to Hitchcock’s Vertigo in Glasgow’s Trongate

17.12.2024 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Published this yesterday on @everythingjazz.bsky.social, it was wonderful to revisit this album which still sounds so timeless and forward thinking. Thanks to Andrew Taylor Dawson for a great piece.

13.12.2024 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

that's my personal fav!

11.12.2024 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Coolest Jazz Albums to Make Your Christmas Swing with Style - Everything Jazz The holidays can be a testing time for discerning music lovers. Our pick of quality Christmas jazz is enough to get the Grinch grooving! Buy on Everything Jazz

how about this? www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-co...

(disclosure, I work with EJ and commissioned but didn't write this piece)

11.12.2024 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

great pic! I wasn't far behind you bsky.app/profile/did:...

10.12.2024 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The university of Glasgow on a freezing foggy night. The fog is illuminated by the purple flood lighting, giving the imposing gothic building an otherworldly feeling

The university of Glasgow on a freezing foggy night. The fog is illuminated by the purple flood lighting, giving the imposing gothic building an otherworldly feeling

The @uofglasgow.bsky.social in the purple fog

10.12.2024 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

no place has a weirder street culture and it's great

06.12.2024 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
When Day is Done
by iain Crichton Smith

Sorrow remembers us when day is done.
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening.
It welcomes us home again after the day.
It is so old in its black silken dress,
its stick beside it carved with legends.
It tells its stories over and over again.
After a while we have to stop listening.

When Day is Done by iain Crichton Smith Sorrow remembers us when day is done. It sits in its old chair gently rocking and singing tenderly in the evening. It welcomes us home again after the day. It is so old in its black silken dress, its stick beside it carved with legends. It tells its stories over and over again. After a while we have to stop listening.

Sorrow remembers us when day is done.
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening…

β€”Iain Crichton Smith, β€œWhen Day is Done”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021)
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

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Afric Pepperbird – Early Jan Garbarek and the Beginnings of ECM - Everything Jazz 55 years since the birth of ECM, we revisit a record that distills the spirit of the label and its founder Manfred Eicher. Read & Buy on Everything Jazz

Just published on @everythingjazz.bsky.social a great first piece from our latest new writer, the composer @jonopstad.bsky.social on Jan Garbarek's beautiful 1971 Afric Pepperbird and the emergence of the ECM aesthetic

www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...

05.12.2024 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ya beauty!

04.12.2024 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Max Roach - The Most Melodious Drummer in Jazz - Everything Jazz In drummer Max Roach's centenary year, we take a closer look at his stellar career and some of the recordings that define it. Read & buy on Everything Jazz

Just published this on @everythingjazz.bsky.social Daniel Spicer's great survey of Max Roach in his centenary year

www.everythingjazz.com/story/max-ro...

04.12.2024 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

oh that's fantastic news, I saw that show too and it was great

04.12.2024 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

make sure you don't get left behind!

04.12.2024 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YES! this is such a great Christmas movie for everyone except those left by their families at boarding school

04.12.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

glad you said no, but do you know if they disclose the info that guests are paying to their listeners?

04.12.2024 11:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is horrible, and a great reminder that we are in the wild west of media at the moment

I hope it comes with a disclaimer for listeners that guests have paid to be interviewed

04.12.2024 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

booked! I'm really looking forward to this

03.12.2024 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey, Im interested in this but can’t see it on your website. For ref here is how it looks on mobile

02.12.2024 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great piece full of context, sense and feeling

02.12.2024 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Winter Apple 
by Don Paterson

for Nora Chassler
​
Here, I got you one of those you like:
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small 
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be,
as green as Eden, the red an afterthought
as if there’d been an hour left in the season
to paint them all, and where the brush had swept 
the snow-white fruit below is stained with pink 
as if your teeth had bled from biting it.
It was hard enough to body itself forth
with so few leaves to hide it from the frost 
without it burning fuel on working out
where its skin stopped and its flesh began.
All that touched it shook its heart. It was that
or it was nothing. Take it in your pocket
on your long Sunday walk to eat by the loch 
with that lone jackdaw only you can talk to.
I make no great claims for this little thing
but I promise only good will come of it.

A Winter Apple by Don Paterson for Nora Chassler ​ Here, I got you one of those you like: those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small and sweeter than they’ve any right to be, as green as Eden, the red an afterthought as if there’d been an hour left in the season to paint them all, and where the brush had swept the snow-white fruit below is stained with pink as if your teeth had bled from biting it. It was hard enough to body itself forth with so few leaves to hide it from the frost without it burning fuel on working out where its skin stopped and its flesh began. All that touched it shook its heart. It was that or it was nothing. Take it in your pocket on your long Sunday walk to eat by the loch with that lone jackdaw only you can talk to. I make no great claims for this little thing but I promise only good will come of it.

Here, I got you one of those you like:
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…

β€”Don Paterson, β€œA Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
www.donpaterson.net/about-1-1

02.12.2024 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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