On tonight’s #Corrie written by JULIE JONES: Cassie is up to her old tricks again as she crosses a line to get rid of Ross... Elsewhere, Nina makes an alarming accusation. ITV1 @ 8:30pm

'I want it to be normal for people to go to the opera' ROBIN NORTON-HALE, Artistic Director & CEO @etopera.bsky.social discusses her mission to make opera more accessible, the company's move to Sheffield, and why live performance should be for everyone:

'I want it to be normal for people to go to the opera' Robin Norton-Hale, artistic director of English Touring Opera

Robin Norton-Hale, artistic director of English Touring Opera, talks to Northern Soul's Ellen Beardmore and Amy Stone.

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With the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, now is the perfect time to revisit THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS by Hugh Lupton & Daniel Morden, spectacularly illustrated by @christinabalit.bsky.social 🌊⚓✨ Publ. @barefootbooks.bsky.social 📷 THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS, photographed with Ithaca.

📣 MISSING PRESUMED DROWNED, a new audio Drama on 4 by NICHOLAS McINERNY 🎧 today July 2 @ 14.15 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... …an immigrant’s story asking the enduring question, how English can one ever truly be? Based on Stefano Paolini’s book Director Marina Caldarone #PierProductionsLtd

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Missing Presumed Drowned

A drama based on the true events surrounding the sinking of Arandora Star on 2 July 1940.

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🎭 A new play by JAMES McDERMOTT: IT COMES IN WAVES 'a fantastic balance of comedy, heartbreak, and tender, deeply personal moments’ touring East Anglia until July 11th. Director Jake Smith #EasternAngles #SeagullTheatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ easternangles.co.uk/event/it-com... Playtext @concordukshows.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 📣 Toxic waste in a Norfolk eco-village? Inspired by Ibsen’s Enemy Of The People, HASHTAGPUBLICENEMY, is an original audio Drama on 4 by STEVE WATERS. 🎧 Today @ 3pm on BBCRadio4 @reducedlistening.bsky.social @jeremort.bsky.social

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, HashtagPublicEnemy

A new play by Steve Waters based on Ibsen’s Enemy of the People, with Joseph Millson.

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📢 New play IT COMES IN WAVES by JAMES McDERMOTT #EasternAngles opening The Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft this Friday 19th June 🌊🎭 Set in a Lowestoft grief cafe, don't miss this 'big-hearted community-spirited coastal comedy’ touring East Anglia until 11th July: 🎟️ easternangles.co.uk/event/it-com...

Collective rage in action thanks to Rebecca Lenkiewicz and ALL THE RAGE contributors including LISA PARRY and JANE UPTON: www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

‘Anger burns off every bit of it’: the furious guerrilla-art response to the Epstein files

All the Rage, a collection of ‘art meets theatre meets activism’ by more than 80 writers, can feel overwhelming, writes our critic, but it devastatingly conveys the cumulative horror and anger of abus...

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'The camera allows us to be inside the emotion in a way you can’t always achieve on stage' ROBIN NORTON-HALE discusses bringing her ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ LA BOHÈME production from stage to screen with Opera Wire @finitefilms.bsky.social operawire.com/q-a-robin-no...

Q & A: Robin Norton-Hale on Filming 'La Boheme' & Her Upcoming Projects - OperaWire

Robin Norton-Hale is a multi-award-winning freelance writer and director for theatre, opera and film, currently based between London and Sheffield. She is the Artistic Director and CEO of English…

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Shout out to LISA PARRY and JANE UPTON for their contributions to ALL THE RAGE @theatredeli.bsky.social June 11th - 13th. 'The Epstein files are about more than men and money: All the Rage, the 'guerrilla' play fuelled by 80 furious women: www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

‘The Epstein files are about more than men and money’: All the Rage, the ‘guerrilla’ play fuelled by 80 furious women

Enraged at how the victims of Jeffrey Epstein are being forgotten, more than 80 female and non-binary writers united – to create an epic drama fusing art, activism and anger. How will it work?

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📣 GLYN MAXWELL’s poem A ROUSING SPEECH is celebrated @poemsonthetube.bsky.social across TfL summer series marking 40 years of Poems on the Underground tfl.gov.uk/info-for/med...

📚THE BOY WHO BECAME QUEEN by CHRISTINA BALIT is shortlisted for #youngquills2026 Historical Fiction Award (ages 5-8). Congratulations @christinabalit.bsky.social 👏 @otterbarrybooks.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social www.history.org.uk/primary/cate...

On tonight’s #Corrie written by JULIE JONES: Danielle publicly accuses Todd of murdering Theo for his life insurance... But Ryan soon turns the tables with new information. ITV1 @ 8:30pm

SCENES FROM A FRIENDSHIP by JANE UPTON ‘A platonic One Day that will melt your heart’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social @hannahlucystone.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m... ⬇️ 🎟️ until 12 June nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/scene...

Scenes from a Friendship review – a platonic One Day that will melt your heart

Teenage crushes, breakups, careers, kids, fallings out and unbreakable loyalty – Jane Upton gives us a luminous, sweeping story of two best mates

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📣 SCENES FROM A FRIENDSHIP new play by JANE UPTON opens tonight @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social Director Hannah Stone Published @nickhernbooks.bsky.social May 15 - June 12 Book 🎟️ nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/scene...

Scenes from a Friendship - Nottingham Playhouse

This world premiere by Jane Upton is a funny but deeply felt look at the bond you share with your best friend, who’s shaped your life, knows all your mistakes but loves you regardless.

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Our next session is a tribute to the late David Pinner (see link) and our AGM. www.actorsandwriters.london/david.pinner...

CHASING THE MOMENT, a 'dazzling jazz drama' by the late JACK SHEPHERD 'changed' the life of @arcolatheatre.bsky.social Mehmet Ergen: www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m... Script available: www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/s/11509/chasing-the-moment www.steinplays.com/clients/jack...

The play that changed my life: Jack Shepherd’s dazzling jazz drama was somethin’ else

The late playwright was also a great actor and pianist who combined all three talents in Chasing the Moment, which flowed like real life

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Glorious promenading to the company of JAMES McDERMOTT’s new adaptation of WIND IN THE WILLOWS 🐸🎭 this weekend May 15-16 #SheringhamLittleTheatre @nnfest.bsky.social ⬇️

🎭 Opening night countdown is 🔛⏳ for SCENES FROM A FRIENDSHIP by #JaneUpton dir @hannahlucystone.bsky.social @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social @nickhernbooks.bsky.social Don’t miss this ‘warm, funny, and deeply felt look at the bond you share with the person who’s shaped your life’ May 15 - June 12

Scenes from a Friendship - Nottingham Playhouse

This world premiere by Jane Upton is a funny but deeply felt look at the bond you share with your best friend, who’s shaped your life, knows all your mistakes but loves you regardless.

nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

On tonight’s #Corrie written by JULIE JONES: Daniel accuses Hope of using AI to write her poem but she accuses him of assault just as Mrs Crawshaw arrives... Could Hope's allegations destroy his career? ITV1 @ 8:30pm @itvcorrie.bsky.social

🎧 Ahead of the forthcoming UK local elections, catch up on 400 STRANGERS by KATIE FARR, a topical, searing, and compassionate portrait of immigration, and an East Midland community on the brink. @almost-tangible.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Spotlight, 400 Strangers

When 400 asylum-seeking men are housed in two East Midlands hotels, a community fractures.

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🎬 Huge congratulations to the SLOW HORSES team - especially Will Smith - on the BAFTA Craft Award. Five phenomenal seasons bringing MICK HERRON’s novels to the screen. Outstanding work by all See-Saw Films, Jamie Laurenson, cast and crew 👏 x.com/BAFTA/status...

Catch up on MARK ROBERTSON’s episode One-Man Band which launches #Balamory new series bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... and episode four SOLAR SCRAMBLE bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... 📺 With all episodes available to stream on iPlayer

Balamory - Series 1: 1. One-Man Band

PC Plum is determined to perform Great-Granny Plum’s song at the Balamory ceilidh all by himself, but he soon realises it isn’t easy being a one-man band.

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In today's new BALAMORY series, SOLAR SCRAMBLE written by MARK ROBERTSON: Ava’s solar gadgets malfunction, making her doubt her skills. But with PC Plum’s encouragement, she makes a new discovery. 5pm on CBBC or stream on iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

After 20 years, the BBC is relaunching their children's classic BALAMORY today @ 5pm on CBBC with ONE-MAN BAND written by MARK ROBERTSON. We reunite with PC Plum, who is determined to perform at the Balamory ceilidh, but he soon realises it isn’t easy being a one-man band.

#AlistairMcGowan pays brilliant tribute to THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY author H.E. BATES on BBC Radio4's Great Lives 📻 'To me it's a minor literary tragedy that he is so little known and so little trumpeted.' 🎧 Catch up on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great Lives - Alistair McGowan on HE Bates - BBC Sounds

Impressionist, poet and comedian Alistair McGowan on author HE Bates

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ROBIN NORTON HALE’s ‘outstanding’ PAGLIACCI begins its UK tour after a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ run at Everyman Theatre Cheltenham #EnglishTouringOpera This vivid take of fame and obsessive love 💔 comes to Chester, Norwich, Canterbury, Cambridge, Truro, Durham and more 🎟️

Pagliacci | English Touring Opera

A toxic relationship dissolves in Leoncavallo's intense and claustrophobic drama

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Looking ahead to summer with JAMES McDERMOTT's new play IT COMES IN WAVES 🌊☀️ Co-produced by Seagull Theatre and Eastern Angles. “A big-hearted community-spirited coastal comedy”

Here comes summer - with two shows from Eastern Angles

No strangers to Peterborough, Eastern Angles present their Summer season set to tour with two new shows: It Comes In Waves and The Go Between.

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On tonight’s #Corrie written by JULIE JONES: Tim starts to question his past as he is drawn into the Will and Megan drama. Elsewhere, Bethany is ready to meet her new online love interest, but could scheming Jodie stand in the way? ITV1 @ 8:30pm

TODAY at 3pm on #BBCRadio4 - 400 STRANGERS by KATIE FARR. Don't miss this 'searing, compassionate portrait of a community on the brink' - a timely new audio Drama on 4 @almost-tangible.bsky.social Listen live: bit.ly/4uLsYGx

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, 400 Strangers

When 400 asylum-seeking men are housed in two East Midlands hotels, a community fractures.

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