@ruth-rien.bsky.social
Retired Medic. Interests include music, radio3, Art and plants.
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Good Morning! Saturday Breakfast @bbcradio3 is live with Mozart, Ravel, Coleridge-Taylor, and Bach before 7.
Come join us to start your weekend!
Come join us to start your weekend!
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Good Morning! Saturday Breakfast @bbcradio3 is live with Mozart, Ravel, Coleridge-Taylor, and Bach before 7.
Come join us to start your weekend!
Come join us to start your weekend!
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A cracking morning of programming in breakfast today. Steered by the lovely Lissie, Amy and myself. Join us from 6:30. What are you enjoying listening to. Let me know.
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
A cracking morning of programming in breakfast today. Steered by the lovely Lissie, Amy and myself. Join us from 6:30. What are you enjoying listening to. Let me know.
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Good morning! Your @bbcradio3 Saturday Breakfast team are raring to go. Thistles, Venus, and Goldberg Variations before 7 but we’re curious: what’s the music that reminds you of home?
October 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Good morning! Your @bbcradio3 Saturday Breakfast team are raring to go. Thistles, Venus, and Goldberg Variations before 7 but we’re curious: what’s the music that reminds you of home?
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Peder Severin Krøyer's work depicts his wife Marie in their garden at Skagen in June 1892, a picture that puts you on the spot. Like Monet, Krøyer can see colours and contrasts and radiances that most people can't.
September 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Peder Severin Krøyer's work depicts his wife Marie in their garden at Skagen in June 1892, a picture that puts you on the spot. Like Monet, Krøyer can see colours and contrasts and radiances that most people can't.
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Acquisition news!
Michael Ayrton frequently created imaginative, myth-infused landscapes with classical architecture floating in half-realist, half-dreamlike settings.
The Fry Gallery is very grateful to Adam Forman for this generous gift.
Sacred Place, oil on chipboard by Michael Ayrton, 1958
Michael Ayrton frequently created imaginative, myth-infused landscapes with classical architecture floating in half-realist, half-dreamlike settings.
The Fry Gallery is very grateful to Adam Forman for this generous gift.
Sacred Place, oil on chipboard by Michael Ayrton, 1958
August 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Acquisition news!
Michael Ayrton frequently created imaginative, myth-infused landscapes with classical architecture floating in half-realist, half-dreamlike settings.
The Fry Gallery is very grateful to Adam Forman for this generous gift.
Sacred Place, oil on chipboard by Michael Ayrton, 1958
Michael Ayrton frequently created imaginative, myth-infused landscapes with classical architecture floating in half-realist, half-dreamlike settings.
The Fry Gallery is very grateful to Adam Forman for this generous gift.
Sacred Place, oil on chipboard by Michael Ayrton, 1958
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Morning #bbcradio3 breakfasters!
Proud of myself for setting up the desk this morning. House martins and a finch alongside Bach, Dvorak, and Verdi before 7.
Proud of myself for setting up the desk this morning. House martins and a finch alongside Bach, Dvorak, and Verdi before 7.
August 29, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Morning #bbcradio3 breakfasters!
Proud of myself for setting up the desk this morning. House martins and a finch alongside Bach, Dvorak, and Verdi before 7.
Proud of myself for setting up the desk this morning. House martins and a finch alongside Bach, Dvorak, and Verdi before 7.
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Morning! #BBCRadio3 Breakfast coming from London this week. It’s Proms Marathon Monday - what have been your favourite Proms so far?
August 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Morning! #BBCRadio3 Breakfast coming from London this week. It’s Proms Marathon Monday - what have been your favourite Proms so far?
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The only angle you’ve yet to see of the studio this week. Who’s up nice and early for this wonderful bit of Bach?
August 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The only angle you’ve yet to see of the studio this week. Who’s up nice and early for this wonderful bit of Bach?
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If an artist wants to give particular emphasis to something, they have numerous means at their disposal - particularly lighting and luminosity as was the case with William Brooker, as his eye-sight dimmed, his still-lifes became brighter and more vibrant. This is from 1975.
July 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
If an artist wants to give particular emphasis to something, they have numerous means at their disposal - particularly lighting and luminosity as was the case with William Brooker, as his eye-sight dimmed, his still-lifes became brighter and more vibrant. This is from 1975.
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Not one, but two ensembles performing at Wigmore Hall next week are on BBC In Tune today ✨
Listen in for live music from Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and Emma Johnson and the Orchestra for the Environment 💫
📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f7sl
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on
Listen in for live music from Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and Emma Johnson and the Orchestra for the Environment 💫
📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f7sl
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on
BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, Live classical music for your commute
Petroc Trelawny is joined by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and Emma Johnson.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Not one, but two ensembles performing at Wigmore Hall next week are on BBC In Tune today ✨
Listen in for live music from Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and Emma Johnson and the Orchestra for the Environment 💫
📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f7sl
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on
Listen in for live music from Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and Emma Johnson and the Orchestra for the Environment 💫
📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f7sl
🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on
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Golden Plover in the Pennines was this morning's dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. This one 📸 was on the Snake Pass in Derbyshire. Come join us till 9.30!
July 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Golden Plover in the Pennines was this morning's dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. This one 📸 was on the Snake Pass in Derbyshire. Come join us till 9.30!
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A monumental achievement from British Youth Opera (and can someone please hire Mark Le Brocq to sing Grimes again please?). Reviewed Peter Grimes for @ccmusicuk.bsky.social : criticscircle.org.uk/a-rich-haul-...
July 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A monumental achievement from British Youth Opera (and can someone please hire Mark Le Brocq to sing Grimes again please?). Reviewed Peter Grimes for @ccmusicuk.bsky.social : criticscircle.org.uk/a-rich-haul-...
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The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social have announced an exhibition, "John le Carré: Tradecraft", 1 Oct - 6 Apr 2026. A book, Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carré, will be published by Bodleian Library Publishing.
“Oxford was Smiley’s spiritual home, as it is mine.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
“Oxford was Smiley’s spiritual home, as it is mine.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘Like an academic’: private papers reveal John le Carré’s attention to detail
Exclusive: Oxford’s Bodleian libraries to put archive items on display for first time, celebrating spy author’s ‘tradecraft’
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social have announced an exhibition, "John le Carré: Tradecraft", 1 Oct - 6 Apr 2026. A book, Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carré, will be published by Bodleian Library Publishing.
“Oxford was Smiley’s spiritual home, as it is mine.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
“Oxford was Smiley’s spiritual home, as it is mine.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Peter Grimes at Saffron Hall yesterday with @britishyouthopera.bsky.social Cambridge Philharmonic.
A fantastic production and performance! Clever semi-staging and such beautiful singing.
It’s on again today @cadoganhall.bsky.social
Go if you can !
A fantastic production and performance! Clever semi-staging and such beautiful singing.
It’s on again today @cadoganhall.bsky.social
Go if you can !
July 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Peter Grimes at Saffron Hall yesterday with @britishyouthopera.bsky.social Cambridge Philharmonic.
A fantastic production and performance! Clever semi-staging and such beautiful singing.
It’s on again today @cadoganhall.bsky.social
Go if you can !
A fantastic production and performance! Clever semi-staging and such beautiful singing.
It’s on again today @cadoganhall.bsky.social
Go if you can !
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'Still-life Summer Garden.' (1963) Cedric Morris stated in 1928: 'I am inclined to believe that selection from natural forms is the expression of our national genius. From natural objects, I obtain line for lines sake, colour for colours sake, form for forms sake.'
July 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
'Still-life Summer Garden.' (1963) Cedric Morris stated in 1928: 'I am inclined to believe that selection from natural forms is the expression of our national genius. From natural objects, I obtain line for lines sake, colour for colours sake, form for forms sake.'
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Free tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) ? Join us at St Mark’s Regent’s Park for music by Elgar, Tomkins, Farnaby, Holst, Tippett, Lloyd and more, interspersed with readings from Trelawny’s Cornwall. 3pm. Admission Free. Maybe see you there ….
June 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Free tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) ? Join us at St Mark’s Regent’s Park for music by Elgar, Tomkins, Farnaby, Holst, Tippett, Lloyd and more, interspersed with readings from Trelawny’s Cornwall. 3pm. Admission Free. Maybe see you there ….
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Morning Radio 3 breakfasters. Delighted to have you're company this morning. I'd love to know what you're enjoying today.
Email me
[email protected]
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Or send me a tweet @bbcradio3
Email me
[email protected]
Text 8311
Or send me a tweet @bbcradio3
May 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Morning Radio 3 breakfasters. Delighted to have you're company this morning. I'd love to know what you're enjoying today.
Email me
[email protected]
Text 8311
Or send me a tweet @bbcradio3
Email me
[email protected]
Text 8311
Or send me a tweet @bbcradio3
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My inaugural breakfast link yesterday. Join me today for more great music to start your Tuesday on BBC Radio 3
May 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
My inaugural breakfast link yesterday. Join me today for more great music to start your Tuesday on BBC Radio 3
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Finding the Lost Murals of the Bardfield Artists, a talk by Alan Powers and part of our annual Fry Lecture Series, is on Friday 25 April at 7.30pm in the Quaker Meeting House, Saffron Walden CB10 1AA. Tickets £6 on the door or on line. See you there!
April 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Finding the Lost Murals of the Bardfield Artists, a talk by Alan Powers and part of our annual Fry Lecture Series, is on Friday 25 April at 7.30pm in the Quaker Meeting House, Saffron Walden CB10 1AA. Tickets £6 on the door or on line. See you there!
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Super night at BBC Music Magazine Awards. Great to see @errollynwallen.bsky.social as Personality of the Year, Premiere to Adrian Sutton's Violin Concerto w Fenella Humphreys & Michael Seal, Chamber to Nick Daniel & Julius Drake in the Schumanns, Orchestral to Czech Phil & Semyon Bychkov's Ma Vlast
April 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Super night at BBC Music Magazine Awards. Great to see @errollynwallen.bsky.social as Personality of the Year, Premiere to Adrian Sutton's Violin Concerto w Fenella Humphreys & Michael Seal, Chamber to Nick Daniel & Julius Drake in the Schumanns, Orchestral to Czech Phil & Semyon Bychkov's Ma Vlast
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On top of the chamber music world: read our interview with @wigmore-hall.org.uk’s Artistic Director, John Gilhooly, about the hall’s 125th anniversary season, programming 600 concerts – and finding ways to pay for it all.
✍️Mark Pullinger
bachtrack.com/interview-jo...
✍️Mark Pullinger
bachtrack.com/interview-jo...
On top of the chamber music world: Wigmore Hall’s John Gilhooly
The London venue’s Artistic Director talks about Wigmore Hall’s 125th anniversary season, programming 600 concerts – and finding ways to pay for all it.
bachtrack.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
On top of the chamber music world: read our interview with @wigmore-hall.org.uk’s Artistic Director, John Gilhooly, about the hall’s 125th anniversary season, programming 600 concerts – and finding ways to pay for it all.
✍️Mark Pullinger
bachtrack.com/interview-jo...
✍️Mark Pullinger
bachtrack.com/interview-jo...
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11 April 1987 | Primo Levi passed away. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist.
From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz no. 174517.
In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi
From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz no. 174517.
In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi
April 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
11 April 1987 | Primo Levi passed away. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist.
From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz no. 174517.
In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi
From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz no. 174517.
In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi
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The new office … In Tune on air at 5pm at BBC Radio 3 with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, conductor@Sir Mark Elder and pianist TianXu An
April 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The new office … In Tune on air at 5pm at BBC Radio 3 with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, conductor@Sir Mark Elder and pianist TianXu An
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Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Anna Tilbrook asks us to sing along as we cross a rainbow, Bach writes a cantata for a new regime, Hannah Peel surveys a dusty nebula, Britten salutes Young Apollo, Brenda Wootton at Lamorna, Ned Rorem's breakfast & a hydrophone.
April 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Anna Tilbrook asks us to sing along as we cross a rainbow, Bach writes a cantata for a new regime, Hannah Peel surveys a dusty nebula, Britten salutes Young Apollo, Brenda Wootton at Lamorna, Ned Rorem's breakfast & a hydrophone.