Emma Harding

Legend: The Bruce #Springsteen Story - @ladymissbarton.bsky.social explores how a scrawny, long-haired introvert from New Jersey became the iconic, muscular rock star of the ‘80s. A labour of love by Eliza Lomas & Mair Bosworth Starts Sat 10.30 @BBCRadio4 Trailer: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Eleanor Alberga, Jamaican Medley Kate Molleson speaks to Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga.

From Snow White to cicadas - our Composer of the Week is Jamaican-born Eleanor Alberga who joins Kate Molleson to talk about her capacious career, drawing inspiration from folksong, myth, poetry & chemistry. Each weekday 4pm @BBCRadio3 Producer Alice McKee www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Artificial Composer - Music and AI Composer Tarik O'Regan explores the collision of classical music and AI in Silicon Valley.

The Artificial Composer - 7.15pm @BBCRadio3 - composer Tarik O'Regan explores the fast-growing field of #AI music creation in Silicon Valley. Will he ultimately be replaced by AI, or can he employ it as a creative tool? Producer Fay Lomas #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, This Is the Way I'm Going by Michael Amherst An original short story for radio, written by Michael Amherst.

A man runs for a train at Paddington. But this is no ordinary train. 'This is the way I'm going' - new short story by David Amherst read by Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong. 3.45pm Short Works @BBCRadio4 or catch up @BBCSounds Producer Becky Ripley #fiction #shortstory
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.

The Wolfson History Prize shortlist for 2025 is announced. Good reading.

Astronomers: Welsh comedy drama by Imison Award winner Faebian Averies starring Gabrielle Creevy (The Guest) & Brid Brennan. Space-obsessed Olive joins forces with the toughest woman in the jail. Director John Norton 2.15pm @BBCRadio4 or any time @BBCSounds #drama www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, Driving, Driving, Driving on the Autobahn Alan Dein takes to the road to explore the cultural resonances of Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.

‘Wir fahren, fahren, fahren auf der Autobahn’ - 50 years since their paean to the possibilities of freedom, Alan Dein takes to the #Autobahn to explore the social & cultural resonances of #Kraftwerk's iconic song 7.15pm Sunday @BBCRadio4 Producer Martin Williams www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Wonderful to see @welshnatopera.bsky.social’s dramatic, disquieting #Tosca last night @wmccmc.bsky.social #Cardiff -including a spine-tingling Te Deum from the Chorus & beautiful design by Tom Scutt. As ever, my only complaint is that there are so few performances #Puccini wno.org.uk/whats-on/tos...

BBC Radio 4 - The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, Episode 1 Richard Schiff reads Roth's chilling alternative history of a far right-leaning 1940s USA.

"Nobody can beat Roosevelt,” I said.
"Lindbergh's going to. America's going to go fascist."

Philip #Roth's The Plot Against America - a chilling vision of a USA moving towards fascism - is read by the brilliant
Richard Schiff #WestWing 22.45 @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun’

#Keats’ To Autumn, written #otd 19 Sept 1819, after an evening walk by the River Itchen near Winchester - one of the last poems he would write. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...

BBC Radio 4 - Mrs Robinson by Helen Cross, Episode 1: Temptation Mrs Robinson meets dissolute poet Branwell Brontë. By Helen Cross. Reader: Anne-Marie Duff

Mrs Robinson: Lydia struggles to tolerate her children’s governess, Anne #Brontë, but is intrigued by her bad boy brother, Branwell. New fiction by Helen Cross read by Anne-Marie Duff. Produced by Mair Bosworth & Fay Lomas 22.45 Mon-Fri @BBCRadio4 #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - How to Play, Max Richter's Four Seasons Recomposed with Elena Urioste and Odyssey Ensemble Musicians invite us to eavesdrop on rehearsals for a modern day classic

Escape for half an hour with How to Play 9.30am @BBCRadio4 where we eavesdrop on rehearsals for @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social's off-road trip with #Vivaldi - Four Seasons Recomposed with violinist Elena Urioste & the Odyssey Ensemble. Produced by Amelia Parker www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Daguerrotype of Robert Schumann

Robert #Schumann is our Composer of the Week each weekday at 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores his years in #Düsseldorf – the city where he would spend the final years of his life & write some of his greatest music. Producer Sam Phillips #classicalmusic #Rhineland www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - How to Play, Verdi's La Traviata with Opera Holland Park Musicians invite us to eavesdrop on rehearsals for one of Verdi's most popular operas.

The fire, drama & soaring beauty of #Verdi’s #opera La Traviata are explored in How to Play at 9.30am @BBCRadio4 with the artists of @operahollandpark.bsky.social & City of London Sinfonia as they prepared for their recent production. Producer @jolyonjenkins.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Preview in @radiotimes.bsky.social

Recording on location with the incomparable Nigel Lewis

Such a privilege to record this #drama - Origin - in #Darwin’s Down House, Kent @englishheritage.bsky.social

Sarah Woods’ play tells the story of the evolution of his world-changing book. Stars Robert Glenister & Clare Corbett 3pm Sun 31 Aug @BBCRadio4🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002htxs

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2025, Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’ The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Anja Bihlmaier with Sean Shibe, guitar.

2/2 And you can hear the full Prom here, including guitarist Sean Shibe performing the world premiere of ZEBRA by Mark Simpson, as well as Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration, care of @BBCRadio3 & @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - How to Play, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique with Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra invite us into their rehearsal room.

How to Play - the insiders’ guide to much-loved pieces of #classicalmusic - returns 9.30am @BBCRadio4 with @BBCPhilharmonic under Anja Bihlmaier as they rehearse #Berlioz’s fever dream Symphonie fantastique for @bbcproms Producer Martin Williams🧵1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Glorious Gloucester Cathedral. The earliest example of fan vaulting (1350s) & the first use of alabaster for a king’s effigy (Edward II). I also enjoyed our guide’s gloss of Edward II’s downfall as being due to ‘his wife not liking him very much’.

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Balls Siân Owen’s drama about motherhood, ADHD and football, starring Sophie Melville.

Balls - Sophie Melville & Mia Khan star in Siân Owen’s play on motherhood, neurodiversity & the joy and empowerment of women’s football.
Directed by Fay Lomas, BBC Audio Wales 2.15pm Weds 20 Aug @BBCRadio4 or catch up @BBCSounds #WelshDrama #ADHD #womenseuros2025 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, Series 11, Catullus The brilliant Roman love poet is the poster boy for teen angst.

This might be my favourite episode of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics this series because, well #Catullus 😍 @daisydunn.bsky.social & Llewelyn Morgan join Natalie to discuss the love #poet extraordinaire 9am Tues 19 @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds Producer Beth O’Dea www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

black and white photo of horse drawn vehicles moving down the misty street

flower market in town squaare

Early 20C Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne specialised in light and atmospheric effects. His photos, often backlit, have a painterly, almost dreamy quality ~ here’s his Waterloo Place, London / Brussels Market

Thanks Rusty! That’s lovely to hear. I shall pass that on to the production team.

When Eric met Fred (Delius) - our Composer of the Week. Fellow Yorkshireman Eric Fenby helps an ailing #Delius to complete his work. Each weekday at 4pm with Donald Macleod @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds @bradford2025.co.uk #Bradford #Yorkshire #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

One last weekday Breakfast on BBCRadio3 from Salford for a while. On Monday we'll be starting our roadtrip in Gloucestershire at Slimbridge WWT. Moving on to Westonbirt Arboretum, then Bath, Wells Cathedral & Bishops Palace, and ending up at Tyntesfield house. I cannot wait!

Faber paperback edition of Waiting for Godot with STAGE MANAGER'S COPY / NIGEL written on the cover in pencil

End of Act 1 of Waiting for Godot: beneath 'CURTAIN' someone has written the capitalised words, in pencil, 'INTERMISSION / DO LEAVES'

Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?

Photograph of Thomas Mann in 1937

“But imprint this on your mind: tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-The Magic Mountain, #ThomasMann who died #otd 1955.

I recommend this edition of Great Lives @BBCSounds with Matthew Parris @susiedent.com & Karolina Watroba Producer Toby Field #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Rob Rinder and Juno Dawson The barrister and the writer discuss books they feel passionate about.

Fiction from Japan, a #memoir of adolescence & essays on New York life in today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The barrister & writer @robrinder.bsky.social & author @junodawson.bsky.social talk #books with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color — no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June

- Anne Sexton #poetry