Would immediately buy the mid-century novel that began with this sentence.

Isolation, obsession and catastrophe. And that’s just the first episode of Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 as Donald Macleod explores the astonishing scope of Joseph #Haydn’s career 4pm each weekday. Or catch up @BBCSounds Producer Sam Phillips www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music, 1182: Raising Notre-Dame The year is 1182. Notre-Dame de Paris is consecrated, and new musical ideas are born.

How the soaring new architecture of Notre-Dame de #Paris sparked a musical revolution. Key Changes: @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music. 1182 Raising Notre-Dame with Gillian Moore & Michael Wood 1pm Sat 18 April or listen now @BBCSounds Producer David Fay www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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‘The Right Hand of God Protecting the Faithful against the Demons’- this glorious miniature of medieval #Paris is a teaser for the next ep of Key Changes: @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of #ClassicalMusic 1182: Raising Notre-Dame. Now @BBCSounds or Sat 1pm www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

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Text of William Wordsworth’s Daffodils poem

Photograph of a host of golden daffodils

…beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side... as we went along there were more & yet more… & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake.

#otd 15 April 1802 - Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal

Photograph of composer Frederic Chopin

The poet of the piano on Composer of the Week as Donald Macleod follows Frederic #Chopin’s years in Paris. Today the wunderkind from Warsaw arrives “with little more than a ducat in my pocket”. Producer Amelia Parker 4pm @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds #classicalmusic #piano www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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So pleased to hear this! Thanks Jenny.

BBC Radio 4 - Pick of the Week, Claudia Hammond Claudia Hammond presents a weekly selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.

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BBC Radio 3 - Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music Key Changes: pivotal moments in history which changed the course of classical music.

Grateful to @claudiahammond.bsky.social & the @BBCRadio4 Pick of the Week team for choosing Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of #ClassicalMusic. First three eps now available @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... And listen to Pick of the Week featuring Artemis, Stoppard & more 👇

A short taster of a song by 12th century troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover (When I see the lark beating his wings) perfomed by Paul Hillier, Stephen Stubbs and Lena-Liis Kiesel #keychanges #classicalmusic #history youtube.com/clip/UgkxOI_... via @YouTube

BBC Radio 3 - Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music, 1150: Songs of the Troubadours In the 1150s, the King of the Troubadours meets Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Songs of the Troubadours: the original singer-songwriters, whose songs of longing & desire will shape a new musical language. Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore and Michael Wood 1pm, BBC Radio 3 or listen now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Who's your favourite troubadour? And why should it be 12th century crooner Bernart de Ventadorn? Gillian Moore and Michael Wood tell stories of love in Ep 2 of Key Changes: BBC Radio 3's Essential #History of #ClassicalMusic - Songs of the Troubadours, now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you’re in London in the next few months, I can’t recommend this exhibition enough: Hurvin Anderson’s beautiful, hallucinatory, unsettling, colour drenched paintings. From the UK to the Caribbean. Handsworth transfigured into dreamscape. Until 23 Aug @tate.bsky.social Britain #painting

Autographed photo of George Gershwin

Our love is here to stay… George #Gershwin is @BBCRadio3's Composer of the Week 4pm each weekday. Today Donald Macleod explores Gershwin's early life and music, and the glory days of 1930s’ Hollywood. Producer Martin Williams. Available @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I like this beautiful, simple poem by Robert Creeley from his collection For Love

‘Easter Morning’ by Caspar David Friedrich. I love this painting. The muted early morning. The women together, yet isolated in their grief. The new leaves just visible on the bare trees. The moon (and not the sun) as the symbol of hope. (Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid)

BBC Radio 4 - Spotlight, Celebrating Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1. In the Wings Tom Stoppard's comedy about two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Key Changes: Radio 3’s Essential History of Classical Music started today 1pm @BBCRadio3 Catch up @BBCSounds 🎶 It’s the year 1026 & an Italian monk called Guido d’Arezzo brings about a musical revolution…With @gillianmoore.bsky.social & Michael Wood. Producer David Fay www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music - 1026: As simple as do-re-mi - BBC Sounds The year is 1026. Monk Guido d'Arezzo causes a musical revolution with a new invention.

4/4 We start in the year 1026, when an Italian monk called Guido d’Arezzo devises a very nifty way to record and share plainchant. It will ensure the survival of Hildegard of Bingen's astonishing music centuries later... Producer David Fay www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

3/4 If you love #classicalmusic & want to understand more about its evolution, or if you love #history & history podcasts, or if you just want to hear some wonderful music, then #KeyChanges is for you. Join us on this epic journey through a millennium of music-making.

2/4 From the invention of musical notation to the digital revolution, Key Changes tells the story of music as an essential part of human history. Gillian Moore is joined by historians Michael Wood @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Simon Schama @katewilliamsme.bsky.social Rana Mitter and Bridget Kendall.

BBC Radio 3 - Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music, 1026: As simple as do-re-mi The year is 1026. Monk Guido d'Arezzo causes a musical revolution with a new invention.

Sound the trumpet! Very excited to be launching Key Changes: Radio 3’s Essential History of Classical Music, a year-long series charting critical turning points in musical innovation. Each Sat 1pm @BBCRadio3 starting 4 April, but you can find Ep 1 now @BBCSounds🧵1/4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music, 1182: Raising Notre-Dame The year is 1182. Notre-Dame de Paris is consecrated, and new musical ideas are born.

You may enjoy this... Leonin, Perotin and the Notre Dame School www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Patrick Grant and Mary-Ann Ochota More favourite books with Harriett Gilbert and guests.

From Joe Lycett to Penelope Lively - it’s all on A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 when clothing entrepreneur @patrickgrantism.bsky.social & anthropologist & broadcaster @maryannochota.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social to recommend #books they love. All eps @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We're celebrating one of the first identifiable composers this week @BBCRadio3 - C12th polymath Hildegard of Bingen. Each day at 4pm in Composer of the Week with Donald Macleod And at 21.45 Juliet Stevenson plays #Hildegard in a new drama series by Anna Linstrum www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, The Last Sweeping Beams Helen Mort explores the allure of the lighthouse as their sweeping beams are modernised.

The Last Sweeping Beams 4pm Tues @BBCRadio4. Poet @helenmort.bsky.social explores the place of lighthouses in the cultural imagination, as one by one their sweeping beams are turned off. She talks to Edward Peppitt, Emma Stonex and Glyn Maxwell. Producer Megan Jones www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Photograph of composer Thomas Ades

In Composer of the Week each weekday 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod is in conversation with Thomas Ades. Today, early influences and early works including #opera Powder Her Face. Producer Luke Whitlock #classicalmusic #newmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Maryam Moshiri and Doug Naylor The newsreader and the Red Dwarf creator discuss their chosen books with Harriett Gilbert.

Children who burst into flames, a diary-writing singleton & why adults should read children’s books. All on A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 when @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by @bbcmaryam.bsky.social & @dougrdnaylor.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven #books #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...