Simon Tillotson

And I have no idea about his digestion, only that according to Birkin his favourite meal was boiled in the bag cod with parsley sauce so who knows.

I paused briefly, before explaining that it was not me. Anyway that was 19 Rue Jacob, the address on the advert for constipation cures and somehow I feel Serge Gainsbourg would have liked that coincidence

And I saw Jane Birkin walking along the pavement towards me and then step right up to me to ask ‘Is it you?’

Which may have been my most Parisian experience up to that point.

I was standing outside her flat in Paris waiting for my wife who was already inside waiting to interview her

On a ferry across the Baltic and saw this retro French ad for constipation remedies (underneath the children’s burgers) and something in it immediately reminded me of a very brief encounter with Jane Birkin many years ago

My co-worker this afternoon

To celebrate I've updated my Dewey Decimal Classification of the series to include the latest episodes: feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2022/02/cata...

Thanks for including us in your list @dockterman.bsky.social it means a lot

'In Our Time' Is on The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time Here's why "In Our Time" made TIME's list

Time + of all time + in our time = time to listen time.com/collections/...

Screenshot from the Luther insulter webpage. It has a picture of Martin Luther and the quote: You stinkmouths. From On Marriage Matters, pg. 302 of Luther's Works, Vol. 46

Oh, all civil-looking, but you just know they were on the Luther Insulter just as you were offering tea or coffee. ergofabulous.org/luther/?

We still record in BH and I took this photo after our Civility programme which reminded me to check on the uncivil Luthers (who still looked as if butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths)

My former desk (before transferring to TVC)

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Circadian Rhythms Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.

Don’t apologise - happy to help - this (with Russell Foster) may offer some insight into how listening interacts with circadian rhythms (not unlike clearing your mind to stop hiccups as in the recent lungs edition) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

We no longer have the shorter repeats on Thursday evenings but a full repeat on Sunday. Can’t say I miss taking 14 minutes out of a 42 minute discussion and doing that to a tight deadline, though I did like the echo effect

In Our Time - Civility: talking with those who disagree with you - BBC Sounds On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards

If you missed our episode of In Our Time on civility (and can't wait for the rebroadcasts tonight and Sunday), you can catch the extended version on BBC Sounds here. I won't spoiler you on my tea or coffee order save to say that I was delighted it was the same as Melvyn's.

An honor and a pleasure to meet @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social at last and to talk about the slipperiest of topics, civility!

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Civility: talking with those who disagree with you On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards

DPIR's ‪@tmbejan.bsky.social joins Melvyn Bragg and guests on BBC Radio4's In Our Time to discuss ideas around our understanding of the meaning of civility: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This brings our season to a close. We’ll pick some programmes from our archive and share those on BBC Sounds etc over the coming weeks and then we’re back with new programmes on 18th September

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Civility: talking with those who disagree with you On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards

From Hobbes to Locke to Rawls: ideas on enduring the value of (the best kind of) civility in public and private conversations www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Dragons Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this ubiquitous mythical creature.

Was amazing to be part of BBC R4's In Our Time talking about all things Dragon 🐲 If you want to know more about the Chinese zodiac, rain dragons, and The Dragon Boat Festival, you can listen online! 🐉
#inourtime #herebedragons #BBCRadio4

And delighted to be reminded of this by Uccello which I think was on the cover of the Fanthorpe collection and which I often see in part, in passing, on the Charing Cross Bakerloo platform www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pa...

Also delighted to recall Not My Best Side from Ursula Fanthorpe www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/not-my... (which I recited at a verse reading competition at school)

Since Eliane suggested we discuss dragons I’ve been seeing them everywhere (and wondering how many saints killed dragons other than George) - this one was in Mulhouse www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

St George and the dragon, from La Seo in Zaragoza

Tomorrow: here be dragons! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... produced by Eliane

Honorary degrees awarded at Encaenia 2025 | University of Oxford Recipients of honorary degrees at Oxford University today included a Nobel laureate and a multiple Olympic, World and European champion, and represented the fields of sport, entertainment,

NEW: Eight exceptional individuals whose achievements have made lasting contributions to the world were recognised today with honorary degrees at Oxford University’s Encaenia.

More information ⬇️
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Honorary degree recipients for 2025 announced | University of Oxford Nine people will receive honorary degrees from Oxford University this year.

Where Melvyn is, today www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Barbour's 'Brus': epic of Bannockburn, chivalry and freedom How the earliest poem in Older Scots framed the legend of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Michael Boardman & Rhiannon Purdie of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, & Steve Boardman of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – discuss John Barbour's c.1375 epic, the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots
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#medievalsky
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Dragons Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss this ubiquitous mythical creature.

Dr Juliette Wood will (once again) be a guest on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4. Juliette has specialist knowledge of folklore and mythology and will be discussing dragons on 26 June. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social @cuengcommphilos.bsky.social

With the choir filling the middle of the cathedral of La Seo and with this organ, I wish I could have stayed longer and heard the full effect