John Shea

Feedback - BBC Sounds Overseas Switch Off and Lyse Doucet in Iran - BBC Sounds Andrea Catherwood speaks to BBC Sounds about its imminent closure to overseas listeners.

Message from Feedback’s Andrea Catherwood: ‘ #BBCSounds is blocked outside UK today, so if you’re in Ireland or overseas let me know how it affects you - Lots more on this ep of @BBCR4Feedback where I talk to Jonathan Wall head of Sounds (if you can still access it) 👇🏼’

Senate approves cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid programs The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television.

The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT

Macron: "He's a very clever cat"
Merci monsieur le président x

The final scene would have been David Davis showing up without any documents to Brexit talks with Barnier

Le pianiste autrichien Alfred Brendel s'est éteint à l'âge de 94 ans. Interprète majeur de Beethoven, Schubert ou Haydn, il laisse derrière lui un large legs discographique ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/C33

Brian Glanville, journalist lauded as ‘the greatest football writer’, dies aged 93 Brian Glanville, who was the Sunday Times’ football correspondent for 30 years and the influential author of The Story of the World Cup, has died aged 93

www.theguardian.com/football/202... I once found myself sitting next to him in the Upton Park press box talking about the world of opera, which his son & my brother work in, & he dropped into conversation 'I was having dinner once with Pavarotti and Zefirelli...' just your standard West Ham chat.

Colm Tóibín · The Pope and Pachamama Pope Leo, thus far in his life, has been skilled at placing himself in the middle whenever there are warring factions....

‘In Chicago, a little-known recently appointed cardinal retweeted another attack on Vance’s statement: “J.D. Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” That cardinal was Robert Prevost.”

Colm Tóibín on Pope Leo, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sorry about reality. My bad.

Peter Bolgar's newspaper obit. Horse Guards, Royal Academy of Music, and BBC. Survived by his wife, 3 children and 8 grandchildren who have happy memories of fun times together

Very sad news from @johnshea63.bsky.social. Peter was a very good egg and a great broadcaster

‘Cybertruck Man’
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

A call to arms, a call for alms. I made my big splash as a Wagnerian back in 2012 at the tender age of 37. An abrupt change of repertoire from Bach to Brünnhilde made me something of a novelty act at the time, and for the subseque…

We need to act now if we are to save our Arts. Here’s my new blog on Brexit, the Arts Council and my personal experience of “levelling up” raenicholls.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/a...

BBC World Service - Global News Podcast, The Happy Pod: 2024 News Review The happiest stories of the year

It might be helpful to know... some quite good things happened in 2024.

Here are a few of them

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Occasionally

This is *definitely* the first time in my life that anyone’s said that to me!

I’ve been here for about twelve hours now, and the first two entities that I’ve reposted are you and God @thetweetofgod.bsky.social. Seems fair enough to me.

Stop trying to make "skeet" happen.

A lot of My new followers here are very reasonably asking if I will follow them in return. No.