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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 17d

Apols: Ilse Schwepcke

Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 17d

Glad to be a plus one at the announcement of the nominees for the first Ilse Schwepke prize for Women’s Travel Writing. Winner to be announced in Frankfurt on 17th October. Feeling: uxorious. Hoping: victorious.

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 19d

’It‘s difficult to watch other people when they’re watching you’ - the late Robert Redford, to Melvyn in 1976 www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c98d9...

1976: Robert Redford on the tension between fame and privacy

Actor and director Robert Redford on the tension between fame and privacy since the success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

www.bbc.co.uk

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 20d

One observation: in German media, a celebration of the culture of conversation in UK academia and what flows from that.

Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 20d

Lots of thoughts when reading tributes to In Our Time in other languages www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/melvy...

Melvyn Bragg: Ende der BBC-Sendung „In Our Time“

Melvyn Bragg hat 27 Jahre lang in der BBC die wahrscheinlich klügste Radiosendung der Welt gemacht. Jetzt hört er auf. Zum Ende einer Ära.

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 20d

Another. Endlessly amazed by our listeners www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 20d

Lots of thoughts when reading tributes to In Our Time in other languages www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/melvy...

Melvyn Bragg: Ende der BBC-Sendung „In Our Time“

Melvyn Bragg hat 27 Jahre lang in der BBC die wahrscheinlich klügste Radiosendung der Welt gemacht. Jetzt hört er auf. Zum Ende einer Ära.

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you @brandyjensen.bsky.social

Defector @defector.com · 29d

Thank you, Melvyn Bragg: defector.com/thank-you-me...

Thank You, Melvyn Bragg | Defector

Melvyn Bragg, host of the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time since its very first episode back in 1998, has greeted me in the same delightfully brusque manner hundreds and hundreds of times. Hello. In…

defector.com

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Sep 4

I see I’ve written ‘Wednesday’ as if that’s not yesterday 🙄. One of those weeks where so much happens that an hour seems like a day. Oh well.

I’m passing on any messages so thanks for emailing them or posting them here (or elsewhere)

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Sep 4

That’s brought so much joy (“Melvyn, here’s a message from a ship’s crew - here’s one from Mongolia - here’s a student in Iceland who’s heard every show). It’s like an elixir.

We have the best listeners. Thank you.

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Sep 4

One of the glories of working on In Our Time is that listeners around the world constantly share their love for the programme.

They know what they got, to paraphrase.

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Sep 4

So many tributes to Melvyn since Wednesday and I was especially moved by Esther Rantzen and her reference to Joni Mitchell and Big Yellow Taxi (Don't it always seem to go/ That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?) but not for the obvious reason.

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Slightly short of words today but happy to echo this from John who, with Teresa and Phil, slipped in under the wire for what turned out to be a fitting close. Great edition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 24

My co-worker this afternoon

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Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

'In Our Time' Is on The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time

Here's why "In Our Time" made TIME's list

time.com

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Jul 17

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/?

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

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 16

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)

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 16

My former desk (before transferring to TVC)

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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · Jul 5

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...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Circadian Rhythms

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss circadian rhythms.

www.bbc.co.uk

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