some exciting news to share - the proofs have arrived for my book ‘Trelawny’s Cornwall - A Journey Through Western Lands’. Part memoir, part history, part journey, it will be published by
@wnbooks
on August 15th.
The rumour that over-70s might be quarantined for four months has successfully spread worry, depression and even fear among all the older people I know. At this time we need open straight,-forward communication from our leaders-not ideas whispered into journalist’s ears.
Proud to see
@BBCRadio3
making headlines in Times/Telegraph/Mail today - 16.4% rise in audience, 89,000 new listeners to Breakfast.
If you are one of them, or indeed a long term supporter, thank you. And please keep spreading the word about what we do.
Very sorry to hear Jonathan Miller has died. A polymath and cultural giant. From Beyond The Fringe to the opera stage, via theatre, books and the BBC, his contribution to British cultural life was as varied as it was vast. RIP.
Very proud to have been made an Honorary Fellow
@FalmouthUni
- and by Chancellor
@Dawn_French
no less. Bravo to V/Chancellor Emma Hunt, her team and all the students who have made Falmouth No 1 Arts University in the UK.
Climbed up the York Minster tower first thing this morning. The 275 steps providing a good early workout; the views spectacular.
#AYorkshireRiverJourney
@BBCRadio3
thrilled that
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast has won the
@vlvuk
award for best audio music/arts programme. Big thanks to the ace team of Richard, Susan and Brian - not forgetting all the other stars of the show absent today.
Hello
@RishiSunak
- government support is going to be needed for performers who won’t be paid for cancelled shows. Freelancers are at the heart of our cultural industries which contribute £2.8bn a year to the Treasury via taxation, generate £23bn a year and sustain 363k jobs
The realities of Coronavirus. Performers have always been part of the ‘gig economy’. This is going to be highly challenging for many singers, musicians, dancers and actors who are unlikely to be paid if their shows are cancelled.
tufts of white cloud in the sky above - and the lights of Antrim and Aldergrove from the edge of Lough Neagh
@BBCRadio3
#R3NIBreakfast
live from 0630-0900.
Let's hear it for the sextet of musicians who performed at the funeral of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh -
@miriamsoprano
Tom Lilburn,
@nicktenor
Simon Whitely, James Vivian & Luke Bond. We'll reprise their 'Eternal Father' shortly
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast.
Morning fellow early risers. Hope that your day - whether working, resting or playing, whether solo or in the midst of a throng of people, will be okay. Happy Christmas, one and all.
Very pleased and proud to see my friend and colleague
@suzyklein
making headlines in the papers this morning. This is a really great appointment for the music and arts sectors - and for us viewers and arts lovers.
Interesting story
@IrishTimes
today - German epidemiologists have backed allowing full audiences at opera and classical concerts, suggesting there is a greater risk of contracting Covid-19 at the supermarket than from Salomé.
@BBCRadio3
Happy Christmas to you - and good morning from the roof of Broadcasting House where we are testing the kit ahead of the start of Christmas Morning Live. 9am-1pm
@bbcradio3
hope you can join us.
Good morning from Fionnphort on Mull, looking over to Iona.
This is the location for the last day of
@bbcradio3
#R3HighlandBreakfast
. Join us live from 0630-0900 or later
@BBCSounds
. Windier than it looks.
Broadcaster on the beach at
#Fionnphort
at the end of
#R3HighlandJourney
Big thanks to Hannah Fisher and Sorren Maclean for playing. And to an ace production team - Richard, Susan, Rob and Niall. Back in the studio on Monday … which will feel rather different.
For those interested in such things I am this morning addressing a Coles 4038 ribbon microphone - designed by the BBC in 1953. And unchanged since then. A powerful magnet at its heart …
This is the letter about the potential destruction of Sir Malcolm Arnold’s papers. Published
@thetimes
today. Sorry about my scribbles.
@BBCRadio3
This is absolutely disasterous, bleak, grim news. The place where I (and so many other south-west children) first encountered theatre and fell in love with the performing arts. You need to step in here urgently,
@OliverDowden
@ace_national
@DCMS
The entire artistic team at the Theatre Royal Plymouth are being made redundant in 3 days. That’s one of the largest, most well attended theatres outside London. A theatre that now has no artists, and they won’t be coming back. Our world-beating cultural landscape is in collapse
thermos, cagoule, wellington boots and multiple layers packed. Ready for
@BBCRadio3
’s Breakfast coast to coast journey across five Northern Irish Loughs. Wind, rain and poisonous algae permitting. Join us live from Carlingford Lough from 0630 Monday morning.
Good morning. Breakfast is live
@BBCRadio3
- today we celebrate Dame Janet Baker’s 90th birthday. We'll hear her sing Schubert, Handel's Julius Caesar, Beethoven Scottish folk songs, Elgar's Sea Pictures and Arne & Boyce. A celebratory start to the new week.
Amazing day to walk to the coast path from Lands End to Porthcurno. Rain at the start … and at the finish … but otherwise dry and mild.
#Cornwall
#Kernow
About to give this a go …. The chewing of a garlic clove seems to be a popular sore throat cure amongst
@BBCRadio3
listeners … as my social plans have been cancelled anyway, why not ..
This afternoon took a trip to Iona - visiting St Columba’s Abbey and hearing about the work of the Iona Community. One of the features in our final
#R3HighlandBreakfast
from Fionnphort on Mull. Tmr 0630-0900
@bbcradio3
some news - very excited to have joined the
@EnglishHeritage
London Blue Plaques panel. Have always taken huge pleasure in looking up and seeing who once lived where. A gift that keeps on giving - and a fine way of remembering great lives.
Thrilled that I will be taking part in the BBC's coverage of the Coronation. I will be providing accessible commentary on television for people who are blind or partially sighted via the BBC Red Button. Great honour to be part of this extraordinary day
I'm now so obsessed with Bercow saying "Mr Peter Bone" that I've spent a period of time setting it to the opening of Beethoven's 5th. Brexit is literally driving me mad.
The soprano Jessye Norman has died at the age of 74. We'll be remembering her and listening to some of her great performances
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast this morning.
Thomas Hardy was born 180 years ago today. As a young man he supervised the moving of gravestones at St Pancras Old Church to make way for the expanding Midland Rly. These are some of the stones he relocated, now a monument of the novelist and poet
@BBCRadio3
‘Levelling up’ -
@Glyndebourne
forced to abandon touring to Canterbury, Norwich and Milton Keynes; Liverpool suffers a double whammy -
@WNOtweet
has already announced it is cancelling its tour there. Does brilliantly staged opera simply no longer matter ?
Glyndebourne regrets to announce that it will no longer be able to tour as planned in 2023, following a reduction to its Arts Council England (ACE) funding for touring and its learning and engagement work.
first light at Carlingford Lough.
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast is live from here at 0630 as we start our coast to coast Northern Ireland journey. Hope you can join us.
I couldn’t have wished for anyone else to conduct my final concerto performance in 2018. I can remember the rehearsal and concert as if it were yesterday. So very grateful. What absolute service and dedication to music. He will be greatly missed. Sir Andrew Davies RIP ❤️
So tested neg for Covid last Wednesday, thought I was better - and then 24 hours later a relapse, when dear Rona returned 5 x worse. Now feeling much better - but think sensible this time to try for a full recovery. Gutted to miss
@BBCProms
@HallforCornwall
tmr - and our special
The realities of Coronavirus. Performers have always been part of the ‘gig economy’. This is going to be highly challenging for many singers, musicians, dancers and actors who are unlikely to be paid if their shows are cancelled.
Strangford in the rain - with the glow of Newtownards in the distance. Today’s Breakfast base
@bbcradio3
- with geese, harps, Purcell, and St Patrick. Live 0630-0900
#R3NIBreakfast
@WWTCastleEspie
Today in the
@UKHouseofLords
, Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood asked 'Why does the government seem so determined to destroy classical music in the UK?'
Watch in full below 👇
RIP Andre Previn, conductor, composer, pianist. Born in Berlin in 1929, MGM staffer, the “wunderkind in a turtleneck” who in the 70s and 80s was the face of classical music on British television.
This years
@BBCProms
will be different, but they are happening. 6 weeks of glorious archive, two weeks of live RAH concerts. Smaller orchestras, no audience, but LIVE MUSIC !
@BBCRadio3
Good morning. A misty start over Broadcasting House as we mark the centenary of the BBC's first broadcasts. Also ahead
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast H Skempton observes a flashing moon, C Chaminade writes for flute, Britten with a song of enchantment and
@CalidoreSQ
play Haydn
Good morning. We'll pay tribute to Lars Vogt
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast this morning - hearing him play Schubert and Brahms. Also Guirne Creith writes for violin and orchestra, Joyce di Donato sings Mozart and we launch our 2022 Carol Competition. Hope you can join us.
Radio 3’s latest listening figures are in:
🎶 Two million weekly listeners
🎶 Regular listeners tuning in for longer
🎶 More new listeners to the station and on
@BBCSounds
More about Radio 3 listening:
Have decided a long weekend of rest probably best way to show the ‘rona who is in charge. So the fabulous
@hannahcfrench
will be on
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast duty tmr.
Citizens of the United Kingdom. It is our solemn duty to start eating Tunnock’s delicious products as much as possible. A world without Tunnock’s would not be worth living in! Please retweet.