Alongside the latest ep of Key Changes, which looks at The Marriage of Figaro, Kate Molleson tells #Mozart’s story in Composer of the Week through five relationships that shaped his life & music. Today, his father Leopold. 4pm @BBCRadio3 Producer Megan Jones www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read 3pm Mon 3 Aug @BBCRadio4 Education activist Dr Vee Kativhu and Archers actor Susie Riddell discuss books they love with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Sarah Goodman #books #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Dr Vee Kativhu and Susie Riddell

Harriett Gilbert meets an education activist and an actor to discover books they love.

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August #AudioDrama recommendation: Doctor Faustus 🔥🔥🔥 @emmaharding.bsky.social's adaptation of Marlowe's play really shows how to use the medium. Catch it on #BBCSounds for the next month and a bit - it's due to disappear in mid September. #RadioDrama #DramaOn3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama Ep 18 The Figaro Revolution 1pm Sat 1 Aug or find whole series @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our Composer of the Week is C19th Londoner Alice Mary Smith - a series only made possible by new recordings by BBC performing groups. Donald Macleod charts the life & career of the first women in Britain to have a symphony publicly performed. 4pm @BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by children's author Lauren Child and musician David McAlmont to talk about books they love by George Orwell, Elizabeth Strout and Alan Bennett. Producer Sally Heaven. #books #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Lauren Child and David McAlmont

The children’s author and the chart topper talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.

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Delighted to welcome Simon Schama to Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of #ClassicalMusic with Gillian Moore. Simon talks to @petroc.bsky.social on In Tune c.6.30pm. From Haydn to Rossini via the French Revolution & Jane Austen’s piano. @BBCSounds #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Handel’s Messiah is the subject of the latest Key Changes & Donald Macleod expands on #Handel’s story - from Halle to Hanover Square - in Composer of the Week 4pm each weekday @BBCRadio3 Producer Ellie Ajao #classicalmusic #history 1/3 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy47

Post-war love, post-war trauma & the fall of the Berlin Wall. Geoff Dyer & Cariad Lloyd join @harriettsg.bsky.social to recommend A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 Books by Shirley Hazzard, Richard Flanagan & Sheena Kalayil. More book recs @BBCSounds Producer Eliza Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Cariad Lloyd and Geoff Dyer

Harriett Gilbert is with a comedian and a writer to talk favourite books.

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Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah hits Dublin in Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 18 July or listen any time @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy #classicalmusic #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The #SpanishCivilWar started 90 years ago #otd “My corpse a photograph taken by fate… I shall remain As faithful to the vanished moment’s violence As love fixed to one day in vain. Only the world changes, and time its tense.” Stephen Spender ‘War Photograph’ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

The Dawn of Music | alongside Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music, archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett digs into deep time to examine how, over the millennia, we came to make music. And how, in turn, music has made us. 21.45 Producer Becky Ripley www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music

Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett examines how over the millennia we have come to make music

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A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by writer @joannechocolat.bsky.social & academic & broadcaster Islam Issa to discuss #books by Shirley Jackson, Naguib Mahfouz & Arundhati Roy 📚Producer Sally Heaven. Join conversation on Insta @agoodreadbbc www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Joanne Harris and Islam Issa

The writer and the academic and broadcaster talk about favourite books.

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1727: Season of the Violin 🎻 Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 11 July or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy #Vivaldi #Stradivarius www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A debut novel has been named Wales Book of the Year 2026 after judges hailed its ‘tender, precise, poetic prose’ wp.me/p8Mk4U-1oCu

“A book is a loaded gun… Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?” A Good Read 3pm Mon 6 July @BBCRadio4 Classicist @daisydunn.bsky.social & writer Andrew Hunter Murray talk to @harriettsg.bsky.social about Fahrenheit 451, Rogue Male & A Life’s Music www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Daisy Dunn and Andrew Hunter Murray

The classicist and the author talk about books they love with presenter Harriett Gilbert.

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The fascinating story of Fela Sowande & Nigerian art music is the subject of Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod talks to Alexander Douglas to explore where Yoruba rhythms & melodies meet European influences. Producer Ellie Ajao #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Pitch Imperfect: @bbcradio3’s Essential History of Classical Music reaches the age of #JSBach! Key Changes with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 5 July or listen any time @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor #history #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Three great Czechs born #otd 3rd July - Leoš Janáček, Franz Kafka & Tom Stoppard. Perhaps the stars really do align.

Fairy Tales: the stories that shape us. Mythologist, writer & storyteller Martin Shaw talks to Sian Williams about the enduring power - and usefulness of these stories in an age of disinformation. 9.30pm Tues 30 Jun @BBCRadio4 or listen @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Fairy Tales: The Stories That Shape Us

Sian Williams talks to mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw about why fairytales matter

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“How long does a man live after all?” A very special edition of Poetry Please today 4pm @BBCRadio4 in which Roger McGough celebrates the life & work of his friend Brian Patten, who died last year. He’s joined by admirers including Lemn Sissay #MerseySound www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

As we head towards 4th July, Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 explores the life & music of Leonard #Bernstein - a major force in the creation of the musical identity of the USA. With Donald Macleod each day at 4pm or @BBCSounds Producer Sam Phillips www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our Island Music - a week long series 21.45 @BBCRadio3 in which musician & writer Colin MacIntyre, aka Mull Historical Society, explores 5 different British islands & what island life means to their musicians. Tonight, the Isle of #Mull. Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Once Upon a Time… 5 modern fairy tales each eve 22.45 @BBCRadio4 We start with @davidjalmond.bsky.social reimagining The Little Mermaid on Holy Island. Magical new stories by @jolloyds.bsky.social @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Ben Okri & Katherine Rundell www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Once Upon a Time..., Mermaid by David Almond

David Almond reimagines The Little Mermaid on Holy Island.

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Expect lively differences of opinion in A Good Read 3pm Mon 29 Jun @BBCRadio4 when @pperry.bsky.social & @stuartmaconie.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social @hayfestival.bsky.social to discuss favourite books. Producer Maggie Ayre #books #nonfiction #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Philippa Perry and Stuart Maconie

Guests talk to Harriett Gilbert about books they love and loath, at the Hay Festival 2026.

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Key Changes: BBC Radio 3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Episode 13: Singing Superstars 1pm Sat 27 June or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor #classicalmusic #history #opera www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Slow to have picked up on this trend/scam but I was contacted recently by an Insta book blogger who wanted to feature my novel. Great. Went to check out her posts and...she's AI. Attractive young woman posing with books. Glasses (for bookish cred). Every "review" just AI puff. Reader, I was tempted.

Between Westminster and sunstruck St Paul’s The desert has entered the flea’s belly… - Heatwave by Ted Hughes

Even a heatwave can’t stop Hildegard of Bingen. Or @BBCRadio3 Key Changes presenters Gillian Moore & Michael Wood who discussed five centuries of music, from plainchant to Tallis, at wonderful @chalkefestival.bsky.social yesterday. Catch up with whole series so far www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Loved the Gwen John: Strange Beauties exhibition at the National Museum #Cardiff. Just a few days left to see it (ends 28 June) #art museum.wales/cardiff/what...