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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 10d

Funny you should mention the lack of birds at Edinburgh Waverley just now, apart from that lone Wren … I did think when I saw you working out of that tiny cupboard and on the platforms without a blade of grass in sight that the urban setting was a quite a long way from your outdoor happy places!

ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 12d

Is this allowed or is it too much a normal signpost for #fingerpostfriday? On the Isle of Bute.

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 13d

The Joy of Cambridge: Egyptian-style Art Deco Cinema that the owners want to demolish to maximise profits. Maximising profits is what has killed the earth and its cultures.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 13d

A quick reminder that this wee gem goes out this afternoon at 3:45pm. If you miss it you can catch up later on BBC Sounds.

Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 21d

Save the date. I’ve a brand new short story about an exorcism in a nursing home on @bbcradio4 next Friday (26th) at 3:45pm expertly read by Seamus O’Hara and produced by the brilliant Michael Shannon (our 20th collaboration for Radio 4) I really love this wee story #ShadowingGordon

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 13d

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

Wishing you a relaxing evening and a fabulous Friday with this reddish pink dahlia delight from Gamble Garden!

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

A reddish-pink Dahlia Teddy and green leaves.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

From Gamble Garden on a visit in September 2025.

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 13d

See you at Waverley, all being well! In the meantime, hope @petroc.bsky.social is waking up in Inverness to skies as beautiful as this on Bute this morning.

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churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 15d

Rosie Dawson reviews two programmes about #Wales, #art, and love offered some welcome respite in a week otherwise dominated by noisy discussion about speech and its consequences

#Radio #Reviews 📻🎨

Radio review: Artwork: Love’s Moment: R. S. Thomas and Mildred Eldridge and In the Studio: Jon Foreman: Art that goes out with the tide

Two programmes about Wales, art, and love offer Rosie Dawson some welcome respite

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 15d

Breathtaking colours on the Isle of Arran today.

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 15d

I had intended to do the IoM this year but got side-tracked to Arran and Bute. I haven’t been to the IoM since I was three and want to rekindle what are I think my earliest memories of Laxey wheel and steam trains.

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 23d

After a couple of hours of torrential rain, the skies cleared slightly yesterday afternoon to create this autumnal riverscape at Ogmore, South Glamorgan.

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks very much to @theartsdesk.bsky.social for running my review of this year's very inspiring Presteigne Festival (Disclaimer: I live in Presteigne, but I have nothing to do with running the festival, so this is genuinely impartial!) www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Presteigne Festival 2025 review - new music is centre stage in the Welsh Marches

If you were a devotee of Dmitri Shostakovich whose only opportunity to attend some live performances marking this year’s 50th anniversary of his death was spending the weekend of 21 - 25 August at the...

www.theartsdesk.com

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Tom McKinney @tommckinney.bsky.social · 29d

It's Wednesday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. Good morning! New releases from cellist Pablo Ferrandez & Andrew Davis's final project. There's violinist Lisa Batiashvili playing Prokofiev & remembering Choo Hoey the conductor& mover-shaker who had a huge impact on music in the Far East

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · 29d

Oh, gorgeous! Menai Bridge on the Anglesey side is one of my favourite places – I must check this one out.

ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · Aug 21

Indeed it does.

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · Aug 21

Morning Tom from Presteigne, where I’ll listen to as much of your programme as I can while preparing to welcome guests for Presteigne Festival, which starts today.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · Aug 20

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Why doesn’t the BBC blaze the glories of its orchestras year round, not just at the Proms?

The orchestras and choirs of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation are at the centre of Denmark’s cultural life. As its Symphony Orchestra comes to the Proms, what the BBC can learn from its European co...

www.theguardian.com

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The Gesualdo Six @thegesualdosix.bsky.social · Aug 20

Scaling the heights! 🏔️

We loved our stint in the mountains earlier this month. On a free morning we climbed one of the mighty mountains – a little adventure to balance the music-making! 🎶✨

Later this week we’ll be in Rouen for a performance of ‘Mirror of Time’.

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · Aug 20

The stage is set at St Andrew’s Church for Presteigne Festival to begin tomorrow … presteignefestival.com

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · Aug 20

Good morning Bluesky. I'm not generally a fan of Bach transcriptions for orchestra, which to my ears make JSB sound stodgy, soggy and bloated, so I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this. A fine tribute to much-missed Sir Andrew Davis.
#NowListening #NewReleases2025

Record cover. King of Kings - JS Bach Orchestral Transcriptions
BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins. Chandos CHAN20400.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9779886--king-of-kings-js-bach-orchestral-transcriptions

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · Aug 20

Loved your reaction to taking the waters! Cruel producer Barnaby 😂 That photo reminds me of attending a wonderful torchlit supper in the arcade behind you during the Mozart Festival on one of my first journalistic assignments. In November but it wasn’t cold because of the steam rising around us.

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sounds as though I had the best seat in the house in my own kitchen, where the broadcast sounded fantastic! Though I didn’t hear the beginning as I was out singing Evensong; perhaps I don’t need to worry about catching up with the first 20 minutes if there wasn’t much variety.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Aug 18

Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker.

Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path.

Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.

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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · Aug 18

Best of the garden mid August 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦

Flower arrangement with dahlias, zinnias, bergamot, yarrow, scabiosa, echinacea, tomatillo, cerinthe.

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Tom McKinney @tommckinney.bsky.social · Aug 19

Day 2 of our BBCRadio3 Breakfast roadtrip. Welcome to Westonbirt National Arboretum! Too dark for photos right now, so here's the setup from yesterday afternoon. 6.30-9 30 with live music from the Bristol Ensemble 🌲🌳🌴

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ClareStevens @silverlawn.bsky.social · Aug 18

Loved your reference to Gloucester just now. The docks are a little-known gem, so many visitors only see the spectacular cathedral. But I never knew the figures on that shop represent the four UK nations, despite passing them many time while working at the @threechoirs.bsky.social

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