11:45am TODAY on @BBCRadio4
Ep 5 (of 5) 📻 “LIFEBOAT AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
Dominic Gregory’s book📖 abridged by Jill Waters & read by James Lailey
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
6/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Friday
#FictionFriday
#GrimLitFriday
#ReadingOverTheWeekend (What book are you reading today?)
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
6 of 9 #FridayHashtags
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
📖 “Brideshead Revisited” ~ Evelyn Waugh, 1945
#BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky
🎥 “Brideshead Revisited”, 2008
8pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR
7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2017, Ep 9 (of 10) 📻 “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4” - “Dealing With Pandora”
Sue Townsend's 1982 novel📖 abridged by Sara Davies & read by Harry McEntire.
#BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky
🎨Oisín and Niamh travelling to Tír na nÓg, illustration by Stephen Reid in T. W. Rolleston's The High Deeds of Finn (1910)
#BookologyThursday 📚
Memorable places in folklore: Tír na nÓg—the Irish Land of Youth, where no one ages and sorrow cannot follow beyond the western sea. 🌿✨
A realm of beauty, music & feasting.
“There is a country where all things are fair.”
— W. B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
#BookChatweekly
🎨 'Silbury Hill, 'by Paul Nash circa 1922.
#BookologyThursday 📚🧚♀️🌄
Memorable places in folklore: beneath the hills of Ireland, Scotland, and England lie the fairy mounds—sí and sìthean—hollow places of earth and stone where the Aos Sí dwell, hidden from mortal sight. 🌄🧚♀️
🎨 'Silbury Hill, 'by Paul Nash circa 1922.
#BookChatWeekly
#BookologyThursday 📚
Deep in Slavic woods lurks Baba Yaga's hut—a living trap on massive chicken legs. It wanders, creaks, turns its door to intruders: welcome or devour. Cozy hearth and deadly snare.
#BookChatWeekly 📖🐈
#SlavicFolklore 🧙♀️ #BabaYaga
#Hut 🛖🐔
“But the past was no guarantee of the future.”
📖 “L'Île mystérieuse” / “The Mysterious Island” ~ Jules Verne, 1875
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🎥 “Mysterious Island”, 1961
4:45pm TODAY on @Film4
“Man is never perfect, nor contended.”
📖 “L'Île mystérieuse” / “The Mysterious Island” ~ Jules Verne, 1875
#BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky
🎥 “Mysterious Island”, 1961
4:45pm TODAY on @Film4
#PhantomsFriday tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to seeing (and learning) more about the #folklore, art, literature, popular culture and places associated with #ghosts. Feel free to use the hashtag to join in the feed.
#artsky #BookChatWeekly
#PhantomsFriday tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to seeing (and learning) more about the #folklore, art, literature, popular culture and places associated with #ghosts. Feel free to use the hashtag to join in the feed. All (on topic) reposts at @phantomsfriday.bsky.social
#artsky #BookChatWeekly
It is warm within the mansions of Hel.
Carrie Jones, Endure
#BookologyThursday
#BookChatWeekly
“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”
📖 “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” ~ George Orwell, 1936
#BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky
#PoetrySky
🎥 “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, 1997
1.29pm TODAY on #WeDoTVMoviesUK
“He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.”
📖 “Keep the Aspidistra Flying” ~ George Orwell, 1936
#BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky
🎥 “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, 1997
1.29pm TODAY on #WeDoTVMoviesUK
11:45am TODAY on @BBCRadio4
Ep 4 (of 5) 📻 “LIFEBOAT AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
Dominic Gregory’s book📖 abridged by Jill Waters & read by James Lailey
#BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky
10am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
Great Lives
Russell Kane on Evelyn Waugh
Comedian Russell Kane chooses the author of Scoop and Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh. With Matthew Parris. From 2018.
#BookchatWeekly #BookologyThursday #BookSky
4/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Thursday
#OnlineArtExchange
#FolkloreThursday
#TheatreThursday
#PoetryThursday
#BookologyThursday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
4 of 7 #ThursdayHashtags
7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2017, Ep 8 (of 10) 📻 “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4” - “Political Awakenings”
Sue Townsend's 1982 novel📖 abridged by Sara Davies & read by Harry McEntire.
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
Image is a kylix from Attica, Greece (c. 470 BCE).
#LegendaryWednesday #GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #Mythology #MythologySky #GreekMythology #ClassicalMythology #Folklore #FolkloreSky #GreekFolklore #ClassicalFolklore #Greece #GreekSky #ClassicalSky #Monster #MonsterSky #Sphinx #Riddle
🎨 "A Dish of Apples" by Arthur Rackham (1921), for Eden Phillpotts' book. 🍏📗
#WyrdWednesday 📖
Poetic magic from Christina Rossetti’s Sing-Song (1872):
“Delicate and dainty thing!
For the fairies you were fashioned;
Than a flavour so impassioned
Pine and grape no richer being.”
🎨 "A Dish of Apples" by Arthur Rackham (1921), for Eden Phillpotts' book. 🍏📗
#BookChatWeekly 📖🐈
#LegendaryWednesday #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #Mythology #MythologySky #WelshMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #FolkloreSky #WelshFolklore #CelticFolklore #Literature #BookSky #LiteratureSky #WelshLiterature #CelticLiterature #Wales #WelshSky #Celtic #CelticSky #Bard #Riddle #Taliesin
11:45am TODAY on @BBCRadio4
Ep 3 (of 5) 📻 “LIFEBOAT AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
Dominic Gregory’s book📖 abridged by Jill Waters & read by James Lailey
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Wednesday
#WednesdayWriters
#WednesdayWords
#BookshopWednesday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Have any been missed?
5 of 8 #WednesdayHashtags
7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2017, Ep 7 (of 10) 📻 “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4” - “The Nativity Play”
Sue Townsend's 1982 novel📖 abridged by Sara Davies & read by Harry McEntire.
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
4pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
A Good Read
Mark Radcliffe, Patricia Cumper and Harriett Gilbert talk books by Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Strout and Helene Hanff. From 2020.
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
📖 “Moby-Dick” ~ Herman Melville, 1851
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
🎥 “Moby Dick”, 1956
1pm TODAY on @Legend__Channel
5/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Tuesday
#TolkienTuesday / #TolkienTrewsday
#LibraryTuesday
#TuesdayBookBlog
#CrimeLitTuesday
Also, #BookchatWeekly can be used for book related posts throughout the week
Any that have been missed?
5 of 8 #TuesdayHashtags
11:45am TODAY on @BBCRadio4
Ep 2 (of 5) 📻 “LIFEBOAT AT THE END OF THE WORLD”
Dominic Gregory’s book📖 abridged by Jill Waters & read by James Lailey
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
7:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 2017, Ep 6 (of 10) 📻 “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4” - “The School Trip”
Sue Townsend's 1982 novel📖 abridged by Sara Davies & read by Harry McEntire.
#BookchatWeekly #BookSky
#GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #AncientSky #Mythology #MythologySky #WelshMythology #CelticMythology #Folklore #FolkloreSky #WelshFolklore #CelticFolklore #Wales #WelshSky #Celtic #CelticSky #KingArthur #KingArthurSky #Arthuriana #ArthurianaSky #Arthurian #ArthurianSky #Merlin #Myrddin #Pig #Wolf