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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 1d

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/...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 3d

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 - Composer of the Week, Eleanor Alberga, Jamaican Medley

Kate Molleson speaks to Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 4d

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 3 - Sunday Feature, The Artificial Composer - Music and AI

Composer Tarik O'Regan explores the collision of classical music and AI in Silicon Valley.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 5d

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...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d

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

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.

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 9d

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 - Drama on 4, Astronomers

Prison break comedy drama by Faebian Averies, starring Gabrielle Creevy and Brid Brennan.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 10d

‘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...

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.

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 14d

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...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 16d

"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...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 20d

‘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/...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 24d

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 - Mrs Robinson by Helen Cross, Episode 1: Temptation

Mrs Robinson meets dissolute poet Branwell Brontë. By Helen Cross. Reader: Anne-Marie Duff

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 30

Preview in @radiotimes.bsky.social

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 30

Recording on location with the incomparable Nigel Lewis

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 30

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

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 28

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 3 - BBC Proms, 2025, Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie fantastique’

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Anja Bihlmaier with Sean Shibe, guitar.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 28

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...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 25

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’.

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 20

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 - Drama on 4, Balls

Siân Owen’s drama about motherhood, ADHD and football, starring Sophie Melville.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 19

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...

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 18

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

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

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