Today is my last day
@BBCNews
. After 28 years & 21 years as Arts Correspondent I’ve decided to leave. Thanks to my amazing & talented colleagues. You are the best. And thank you to everyone for listening, watching and reading my work. More to come … 📻📺🖋️
It was great to talk to
@ruskin147
about his memoir
#RuskinPark
- at the launch of the
@EalingBkFest
- hats off to the organisers for getting this festival off the ground 📚And 👏👏👏Rory
Amazing collection of UNOPENED letters - seized in their mailbags from ships captured by the British from 1652 - 1815. Now being digitised. Fascinating time
@UkNatArchives
Hear more
#Radio4six
@BBCNews
EXCLUSIVE: Two “stolen” notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been returned to
@theUL
, 22 years after going missing. But who took them and where have they been? Coming up on
#r4today
#DarwinAppeal
#TreeofLife
EXCLUSIVE: “Everybody thought they had been destroyed.” 422 highly explicit erotic drawings by Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant have been found - under a bed. Hear the extraordinary story at 8.20
@BBCr4today
#r4today
@CharlestonTrust
#MuseumPassion
Good to talk to
@tomhanks
in his only UK media interview about his 1st novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece. He writes, he says, as a “release from the never-ending pressure of making movies.” COMING UP on
#r4today
#bbcnews
@HutchHeinemann
@PenguinUKBooks
Wow. The
@bbcproms
is the gift that keeps on giving. A sensational performance of Beethoven’s 4th piano concerto by Alexandre Kantorow & then superlative playing by
@royalphilorch
of Shostakovich Symphony No 10 conducted with such skill by Vasily Petrenko
@RoyalAlbertHall
🎼👏
“I want everybody to be aware of the horror of war.” Privilege to meet Victor Gregg - a British soldier caught up in the coming of
#Dresden
in 1945. Hear his incredible story
@BBCr4today
#r4today
Tonight's the night .. This will be my 22nd
#bookerprize
ceremony - many highlights over the years including talking to
@DUALIPA
in 2022.. Good Luck to all the shortlisted authors. You can watch the official
#BookerPrize2023
livestream on YouTube from 9pm.
@TheBookerPrizes
🏆
As postmasters win another significant victory in their fight to clear their names, I've been chatting to the freelance journalist
@nickwallis
who was crowdfunded to cover every day of the High Court litigation.
#BBCNewsChannel
I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t sure I would like
@glyndebourne
’s monochrome, “strip it down” production of La Boheme. But I was captivated by it. Wonderful singing & a name to watch: the Chilean soprano
@AqueaVeliz
, playing Mimi, is sensational. A⭐️in the making.
#noordinaryopera
Great news for fans of
#HilaryMantel
- she tells me the final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy will be ready next year. That and more on
#TalkingBooks
#bbcnews
“People will be listening to the Today programme and hear someone being interviewed and it will give them a murderous rage and you think well, ok, that’s the start of a book.”
@richardosman
on why “inventing murders is easy” coming up on
@BBCr4today
#r4today
#TheakstonsCrime
“I would like to teach the people not to hate, teach them to be friendly, accept the other.” Now 90, Dita Kraus reflect on her life as the Librarian at Auschwitz
#r4Today
@BBCr4today
The shortlist for the
#womensprize
:
The Idiot by Elif Batuman, The Mermaid & Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Sight by Jessie Greengrass, When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy, Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie, Sing,Unburied,Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Think it might have been
@j_amesmarriott
in
@thetimes
who recommended Michael Frayn’s Towards the End of the Morning as one of the funniest books to read. Can it be true that print journalists want to be on 📺?!Anyway v. funny, especially the Magic Carpet section ...
#goodreads
Believe the hype. Demon Copperhead is brilliant. I didn’t get round to it when
@FaberBooks
initially sent me a proof copy because it sounded so bleak. It isn’t. If you’re able to have a holiday, take this book and you won’t be disappointed. Worthy
@WomensPrize
winner too. 🙌
Very sad news about
#ASByatt
- such a gifted, thoughtful and erudite writer. She was fun too. I was lucky to interview her on several occasions - the last time, champagne was offered after we’d finished chatting and we talked fashion …
Thank you for all the lovely messages. I really am so grateful. There are far more than I ever anticipated so I’m working my way through them all and will reply soon. 🙏
Coming up on
@BBCr4today
: “I’ve not written a whole stage play by myself. I felt my inexperience.” Hear Hilary Mantel on why she worked with actor Ben Miles on adapting
#TheMirrorAndTheLight
for the stage.
@TheRSC
#r4today
Who will soon be dealing with the hazards of the icy roads of Doncaster alongside Gritney Spears and Usain Salt? We'll be finding out the names of
@MyDoncaster
new gritters at 16.50
@BBCNews
Send me your gritty suggestions
#AfternoonLive
Alan Ayckbourn & his wife Heather Stoney - on stage in 1964 & now working together for the 1st time since on Anno Domino
@Ayckbourn
’s new play produced in lockdown for
@thesjt
Hear them both
@BBCr4today
#r4today
Happy to be keeping the seat warm for
@MartineBBC
while she is outside in the cold at
#BAFTA
Awards. Special programme on all the winners at 9.30 pm
@BBCNewsChannel
Exciting news for Stephen Sondheim fans. A live recording has been found of one of his earliest musicals, written when he was 18. Hear it FIRST coming up on
#r4today
@BBCr4today
#sondheim
📻🎵
Blimey it’s been quite a week. Interviewing
#margaretatwood
on Monday and now Dame Harriet Walter. She’s just back from filming the third series of
#KillingEve
....
Live opera - in front of a live audience - is returning to the UK for the first time since lockdown at
@glyndebourne
#glyndebourne
in August. Mesdames de la Halle will be staged outside,
#LondonPhilharmonic
orchestra reduced from 40 to 13. Max audience 200
#opera
A new work by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, written when she was 17 and left unfinished, is being published for the 1st time.
The story, called Aunt Nellie's Diary, is told from the perspective of a single, 40 year old woman.
#goodreads
#LittleWomen