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1 year

Seamus Heaney died 10 years ago. Marking this I’ve made a series of four programmes for @BBCRadio4 each looking at a different aspect of his work, each with a different presenter. ‘Four Sides of Seamus Heaney’ begins this afternoon at 4.30. Poet of Place.

BBC Radio 4 - Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney - Poet of Place

John Kelly digs into the roots of Seamus Heaney's poetry in his birthplace, Bellaghy.

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Desert Island Discs, first broadcast 80 years ago today. A while ago I met a woman who, learning I work at the BBC & have recorded birds, told me her dad did, too. He recorded the gulls used at the beginning of DID, in the Isle of Man. I think of her, thinking of him, every week.

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Catherine Heaney with her mother, Marie, in the kitchen where we recorded much of the second episode of Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, all about love in his poetry. On ⁦ @BBCRadio4 ⁩ at 4.30 this afternoon, then on BBC Sounds. ⁦ @seamusheaneyest ⁩

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5 months

I first came to work here on 17th October, 1979. Today was my last as a member of The BBC’s staff. It has been a great adventure and it’s not, I hope, all over. I aim to keep making radio and other audio.

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2 years

That's me, signing the book (with Lorrd Byron's pen), having been inducted this evening as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. I'm happy and proud!

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4 years

Oh, Murray Walker has died. I persuaded him out of retirement to present a @BBCRadio4 programme about lawnmower racing. He insisted he wouldn't commentate. But once the Atcos were roaring round the field, he couldn't resist, grabbing the PA mic and painting the scene in words.

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2 years

Now this is a righteous shed. Recording on Holy Island today with terrific poet Katrina Porteous accompanied hooooo by a massed choir hoooooo of hundreds of seals hooooo on a sand bank. Hoooo hooo hoooooo.

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3 years

I've been working on a 10 part series, 1922: The Birth of Now, about things that happened in 1922 that still have an impact. All about Modernism really. It's on @BBCRadio4 at 1.45, starting today, and Matthew Sweet, the presenter is on Start the Week talking about now.

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4 years

Patrick Stewart is posting his reading of a Shakespeare sonnet a day during the lock down; Jon Boden once did a folksong a day for a whole year. My ambition is more modest - a picture of a different tree in Greenwich Park every day, because I love them. Look at this mighty oak!

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Seamus Heaney died 10 years ago. The final episode of the series about different aspects of his work will be on ⁦ @BBCRadio4 ⁩ this afternoon at 4.30. Theo Dorgan on the translations he made throughout his life. Making these has been a great adventure.

BBC Radio 4 - Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney - The Translator

Theo Dorgan on Seamus Heaney's translations, their importance and impact on his own work

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5 years

Alright - it doesn't look very impressive and isn't very useful but technically this is the most ambitious basket I've attempted, involving a false foot, pairing, three rod waling and border, and some tricky French randing.

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4 years

On @BBCRadio4 this morning at 11.30,The Susurrations of Trees, the programme Bob Gilbert and I made about the singing of Trees in the wind and the responses of writers and musicians to this. With a specially composed piece for fiddle leaves and wind by @LisaKnappMusic

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5 months

I only left on Thursday and the BBC is already mining my back catalogue (to my delight)! Words and Music today on ⁦ @BBCRadio3 ⁩ at 6.00pm is one I made with top readers Georgie Glen and Tom Durham. A literary and musical hop around our islands, Scilly, St Kilda, Shetland…

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4 years

Greenwich Park early this evening. The towers of the Isle of Dogs remind me of the huge spaceships of invading aliens in sci-fi films: impressive, even beautiful but implacable, inhuman. They are sharp-edged, angular, dead, unlike the roundy shapes of living trees and people.

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I’m overwhelmed by your kind, generous and uplifting responses to my leaving here. As I said, I’ll still be making work. So…please keep sending me stories, ideas, offers.

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4 years

Tonight @BBCFrontRow celebrates poetry. With the Poet Laureate, @Vanessa_Kisuule , @Anthony1983 Anaxagorou, Em Power @PoetrySociety , @Anna_Selby and @hazel_press . Creativity in lockdown; the environment; poetry & vaccination. New poems. @SamiraAhmedUK presents at 7pm @BBCRadio4

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5 years

The Langham Hotel used to belong to the BBC. 40 years ago today I nervously walked through this door to begin training as a radio Studio Manager. I left for a while but came back and am still at it, making programmes (producing @BBCFrontRow tomorrow). It's interesting and fun.

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5 years

Any excuse and I vist the BBC Pronunciation Unit, Yesterday I checked a title for @BBCFrontRow .My colleague was painstakingly working on the names of all the 39 Vietnamese people who died in the lorry. A sad task but vital. Beyond our help, at least we can get their names right.

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3 years

Ours is a plague house now so when there was a knock I thought the Waitrose driver had come to the wrong place. No...essential supplies to see us through Covid organised by Dr Seamus May, bless him, in Sydney. Beer, wine, soup, fish fingers and, in case of scurvy, easy peelers.

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2 years

The Susurrations of the Sea, on @BBCRadio4 again today at 4.00 pm. Sea Sounds; thoughts of those who listen to them closely - a visually impaired surfer, a herring fisherman; the life story of a wave and new poetry by Katrina Porteous.

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5 years

'John Clare's Scraping', the programme @boden_jon and I have made about the troubled genius John Clare, and the way his fiddle playing and collecting of songs influenced his poetry, is on Radio 4 at 4.30pm

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5 years

The remarkable Edna O'Brien with Kirsty Lang after recording the long interview about her terrific harrowing and uplifting new novel, Girl, her first book, The Country Girls, and a lot in between. This will be @BBCFrontRow on Bank Holiday Monday. Not to be missed. #faber

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3 years

John Spiers and Jon Boden in action in the studio for Front Row. Hear them talking to Samira Ahmed about their lovely new album, Fallow Ground,and playing, this evening at 7.15 on Radio 4. @BBCFrontRow ; @BBCRadio4 ; @SamiraAhmedUK ; @spiersandboden ; @harriet_simms ; @hudson_records

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5 months

Footage from our Padstow correspondent.

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2 years

Paul Sartin in The Transports, which I produced for (well, got on to) @BBCRadio3 . I worked with him, too, on Playing the Skyline for @BBCRadio4 . He was brilliant and lovely. We wanted to do more...I'm very sad.

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1 year

‘It’s you, blackbird, I love.’ In the second episode of Four Sides of Seamus Heaney the poet’s daughter, Catherine, delves into his poetry of love - of different kinds. On @BBCRadio4 at 4.30 this afternoon, then on BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 4 - Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney - Love Poet

Seamus Heaney's daughter, Catherine, on her father's poetry of love, of different kinds

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4 years

A Greenwich Park Tree a Day: how about this magnificent conker tree, like a ship in full sail and dressed overall?

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9 years

I once asked a @BBCRadio4 announcer to read a piece with a little more gravitas. "You want the half or the full Donaldson?" he asked.

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4 years

I'm fed up and so starting Greenwich Park Tree a Day again. This is an ageing mulberry and look at the wonderful bark on this walnut.

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5 years

I've always felt lucky as a radio producer but now I'm making a feature about the sounds different trees make in the wind. I had yesterday and today to record these various susurrations...But not a breath to grace the air, and not a tree singing or even humming gently.

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3 years

Unite and unite, we will all unite For summer is a-comin today And whither we are going We will all unite In the Merry Morning of May

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5 years

Seamus Heaney would have been 80 tomorrow. I'm producing @BBCFrontRow on @BBCRadio4 and the whole programme is devoted to his work, life and legacy. A labour of love, at 7.15.

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5 years

The programme on the sounds of trees in the wind and how writers & musicians respond to & depict these that I've made with Bob Gilbert @SarabandBooks is on @BBCRadio4 tomorrow, with @abrackenbury and @LisaKnappMusic - The Susurrations of Trees, 11.30am

BBC Radio 4 - The Susurrations of Trees

Susurrations, the songs trees sing in the wind and how writers and musicians capture these

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

William Kimber of Headington Quarry Morris. His gravestone. He inspired Cecil Sharp to gather dances and tunes. Not just the bellows but the buttons of his concertina, and the bells and buckles. Who was the marvellous mason?

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4 years

Before and After. First haircut since lockdown. It would've been by Chinese Mr Fan, about whom I made a radio prog. He's hung up his clippers but 5 mins from home I enjoy a choice of Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian and Nigerian tonsorial artists. Brisk work by my Kurdish friend today.

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2 years

Oh cruel fate for a Morris dancer!, to rupture his Achilles tendon a week before May Day.

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4 years

Today's Greenwich Park tree is an old favourite which my sons loved clambering up. Me too. A gnarly old sweet chestnut which could tell a few tales.

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6 years

This just arrived at last: the finished 2 CD set of David Attenborough's field recordings, which I found, edited and compiled. It's beautiful and I'm very excited!

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5 years

Recording 'The Water's Music', a Slow Radio piece for @bbcradio3 , a collaboration between sound artist Tim Shaw, a Northumbrian burn and me. Drystone wall country, so I built a bit of one to 'tune' the water. On the radio on May 16th.

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4 years

The @BBCFrontRow production office this morning. That the live, lively arts programme with performance, news, review, interviews will in eight hours emerge from here takes some imagining. But it will.

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4 years

A couple of days ago for the first time for ages we were able to welcome a musician to the @BBCFrontRow to play live - @StevenIsserlis & a cello made by Stradivarius in 1726. Steven talked to @JohnWilson14 , played a lament by Tavener and the whole endeavour made me sadly elated.

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8 years

Sir David and me after a happy morning recording a programme about him collecting music around the world, @BBCRadio3 , 6.45pm, Christmas Day

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1 year

That’s my boy, Matti, about to play Ronnie Scott’s…and that’s the queue.

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5 years

Maintaining a safe distance as shown, yet defying social isolation as we need to create some joy, Greenwich Morris, a light yet powerfully hopped vintage brew, will be dancing by the Cutty Sark (ship) at about 1.00pm today then moving downstream towards the Cutty Sark (pub).

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5 years

Greenwich Morris - dancing today in East Greenwich Pleasaunce (1.00pm - 3.00) at the wassail to ensure the trees produce 'apples in hatsful, capsful and three bushel bagsful'. There will be bands, a choir, stories, crafts...and cider.

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2 years

Lovely old (1963, I think) BBC outside broadcast van, outside Broadcasting House today.

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4 years

Working on yesterday's @BBCFrontRow , Zoom lines from afield as San Francisco, I kept thinking of my son, doing his PhD viva via Skype, one examiner in Georgia, the other in Liverpool. It was great to come home to Greenwich and be greeted by Dr Seamus May, proffering whisky.

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4 years

A Greenwich Park Tree a Day: you think it's all over. It's not.

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11 months

The very wonderful Liberty Morris dancing wither sawn off scaffolding poles rather than sticks, each tuned to a different note.

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4 months

100 years ago tonight the BBC broadcast the first of Beatrice Harrison’s cello and nightingale recitals. At 2.45pm ⁦ @BBCRadio4 ⁩ broadcasts Singing with the Nightgales, which ⁦ @samleesong ⁩ and I made, in which he sings songs about nightingales to and with them. 1/2

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5 years

I remember playing You've Got a Friend, followed by Fire and Rain then It's Too Late and Carolina in My Mind one Saturday night in the youth club in 1971, and today I met and recorded an interview with James Taylor. He's the tall one on the right, not reconciled to being bald.

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3 years

The series @seanplatham and I have made about Bob Dylan starts on @BBCRadio4 today at 1.45, and there is an episode every day until Friday. The first touches on Little Richard, Woody Guthrie, Sis Cunningham and, maybe the first folkie, Homer.

BBC Radio 4 - It Ain't Me You're Looking For: Bob Dylan at 80, One: Learn Your Song Well (1941-1964)

Marking his 80th birthday, a five-part series on Bob Dylan’s life, music and influence

www.bbc.co.uk

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5 years

The yew at Crowhurst. A dozen people used to celebrate 'the Palm Sunday revels' inside. I was recording here for 'The Passion in Plants' a @BBCRadio4 series about British wild plants' association with the Easter story. David Bellamy reckoned this tree was 4,000 years old.

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5 months

Out with Quaggy Morris, dancing in the traditional concrete village green spot - just by the A20. Alas the pub, The Old Tiger’s Head, has closed down.

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6 years

Greenwich Morris, dancing tonight by the Cutty Sark (ship not pub) from 8 till It's too dark to catch the sticks. @squiregmm

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6 years

I'm on @BBC6Music this morning, talking to @cerysmatthews about the 2CD set of David Attenborough's field recordings of amazing music from all over the world, which I compiled. There's lush. @SonglinesMag @WrasseRecords

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4 years

Beautiful shapes, textures and shapes with every log I split. These are elder prunings. If you burn elder, the lore is, you see the Devil in the flames. I'm looking forward to winter!

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3 years

Arrive at Morris practice in style: on a 1976 Laverda Jota. Well, a jota is dance, in triple time; the bike has three cylinders; the Morris step is 1,2,3 - hop; both produce a glorious noise ...Enough already. Greenwich Morris @squiregmm , tonight @MycenaeHouse 8.00pm. Come along.

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7 years

I'm sad to hear of the death last night of Sarah Maguire, a sharp, clear, tough and tender poet. She started the Poetry Translation Centre.

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7 years

I love The People 's Winter Olympics - bin bag luge, tea tray skeleton, estate agent sign big air, old plank slalom.

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2 years

Great to have a full studio for @BBCFrontRow on now

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5 years

Scott Cook's song Pass it Along says you don't own an instrument but keep it for the next player. 3 years ago a friend gave my son the bass guitar he wasn't using any more. My son fell in love with it, is in a band and tomorrow starts studying bass at the Guildhall. #passitalong

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4 years

A Greenwich Park Tree a Day: this is a holm oak, which is evergreen, so very striking in the winter, less so now when its leaves look old and tired compared with, say, the bright green of new beech leaves, fringed with pale fur.

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5 years

On @BBCRADIO4 at 4pm today, 'The Poetry Editor', which I've made with Hannah Sullivan. To find out what they do we talk to editors @FaberBooks , @BloodaxeBooks , @ChattoBooks , poets including Paul @muldoonpoetry , Sarah @luckyflowerhowe , @KayoChingonyi , and delve into archives.

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5 years

30 years ago today I stood outside the Chinese embassy aghast at what was going on in Beijing. 29 years ago I made a @Bbcradio3 programme Looking Out From Death about writers involved with Gregory Lee @GBLee , Bei Dao, Duoduo, Chen Kaige. Today I think of them and what went wrong.

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6 years

I'm very sad to hear that Roy Bailey died today. He was a terrific singer, with a great sense of justice - and of humour. My son Seamus and I have been listening to his children's songs. A childhood without 'The Vitamin Dance' and 'You Need Skin' was sadly deprived.

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3 years

Topo, originally from Indonesia, dances with Greenwich Morris @squiregmm . On my way to the Diversity in Folk conference @cecilsharphouse Greenwich Morris welcomes Every Man, from Everywhere, to join us to dance and play.

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2 years

Eliza Carthy and David Delarre, getting ready for @BBCFrontRow on @BBCRadio4 in a couple of minutes. Oh yes!

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5 years

TS Eliot, poetry editor @FaberBooks (90 this year), said the job is 'to lose the company as little money as possible'. But there's a bit more to it. Listen to TS Eliot Prize winner Hannah Sullivan present 'The Poetry Editor' at 4pm today on @BBCRadio4 to find out.

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3 months

I’m 68 and when I grow up I’m going to be a tugboat skipper.

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2 years

Hottest day ever and I'm at the @elizacarthy and @jonboden somewhat delayed Christmas concert and wassail. There are people here wearing reindeer antlers.

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5 months

Well, Greenwich Morris all turned and danced at dawn on Blackheath…but the sun didn’t. ⁦ @squiregmm ⁩

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1 year

‘Whatever you say say nothing’. But he wrote wisely. The third episode of Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, about how he responded to The Troubles, presented by @gailmcconnell is on @BBCRadio4 today at 4.30, and then on BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 4 - Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney - The Troubles

Gail McConnell on how Seamus Heaney responded in his poetry to The Troubles in Ulster

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

Sam Sweeney's @sweeneyfiddle sublime 'Unearth Repeat' is the perfect album to cook risotto to. It really is stirring music.

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3 years

We welcome another large instrument to our not very large house. How a sawn off oil drum makes such lovely liquid music seems miraculous.

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4 years

If you were interested by the lovely #bbcbh piece about the @britishlibrary recorded sound collection you might like this too : a Radio 4 Archive Hour programme all about it and the sound conservancy work that goes on there that I made with @seanstreet7 .

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Walls of Sound

Sean Street on how our sound archive is being saved and opened up by the British Library.

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2 years

Wondrous rainbow at Holy Island this evening..Each end lighting on a flock of seabirds. Better than a crock of gold.

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3 years

Old dog new tricks? About to go in to my first beginners melodeon class @cecilsharphouse

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6 years

Yes! I've finished my programme with amazing artist @TomaSaraceno who collaborates with spiders to make music with the vibrations of their webs. The Spider Orchestra is on @BBCRadio4 on Monday at 4pm. It is full of remarkable sound.

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3 years

At last Greenwich Morris, dancing out.

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10 months

It’s a one heron, one Egyptian goose and a pigeon morning.

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4 years

Greenwich Morris @squiregmm dancing the sun up on May Day a couple of years back. We won't be able to this year. I'm interested for a @BBCFrontRow piece in the creative ways Morris sides are devising for the dawn dance this year. Please DM me. #MorrisDance #UKMorris #MayDay2020

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3 years

A Greenwich Park Tree Now and Again: the Holm oak sw of the bandstand. Mighty.

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5 years

More than 30 years ago my brother in law, our friend Derek and I bought this beautiful wooden Falmouth oyster punt between us. A few years later we all left Cornwall and the boat languished. Now Derek is repairing her, I've done some painting and soon she'll be back in the water.

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A Greenwich Park Tree Now and Again: amazing bark!

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4 years

Oh yes! A flugelhorn. Yazz plays Jazz...We have Bahraini British musician Yazz Ahmed on @BBCFrontRow playing live at 7.15 and I'm excited. @BBCRadio4

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Coming along and finished.

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A Greenwich Park Tree a Day: it has to be may trees for May Day. I've always had a soft spot for these - because of my family name, perhaps. But in Cornwall we could never bring may blossom into the house.

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5 years

George Orwell at the BBC this morning

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I've a piece on From Our Home Correspondent about traditional cider making, @BBCRadio4 today at 1.30. With thanks to Matthew Bryant at Haselbury Plucknett. There will be Slow Radio programme with all the sounds of the wondrous apple mill and cider press on @BBCRadio3 later.

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Music students returned today; Trinity College in Greenwich vibrant with jazz and opera this afternoon. Some friends greeting each other, "We've just had a lesson. In person!" And my son, at Guildhall, having a jam for the first time for months, and not home yet.

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Cecil Sharp, collector of almost 5,000 songs, tunes and dances, died 100 years ago last Sunday. ⁦ @BBCRadio4Extra ⁩ broadcast again the programme Malcolm Taylor & I made about how it all began with The Seeds of Love, and it’s on BBC Sounds for a month.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Seeds of Love

Cecil Sharp collected thousands of English folk songs for a wider audience.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

Artist Simon Pope @simonpope and singer @jimcausley about to sing and talk about wassailing, ancient and modern on @BBCFrontRow @BBCRadio4

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I've made a piece (that I'm rather pleased with) about the Kronos Quartet's new album, Long Time Passing. It's a collaborative celebration of the life, music and activism of Pete Seeger. On @BBCFrontRow this evening. FR Starts at 7.00 on Fridays.

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A dozen people used to celebrate Palm Sunday inside this yew tree, which features in The Passion in Plants, a series about the traditional associations of British wild plants and the Easter story. It starts at 9.45am tomorrow (Monday) on @BBCRadio4 .

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@julian_may

6 years

Why does the BBC refer to people devoted to the UK leaving the EU as eurosceptics? These people are not sceptical, they have no doubts. They are certain. Their actions and speech reveal both hatred and fear of the EU. They should be introduced as what they are - europhobic.

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Julian May

@julian_may

4 years

JUst finished editing August Bank Holiday @BBCFrontRow , long interview, @bbckirstylang and @RobGMacfarlane - finding sounds, quotes, music to complement the conversation. Usually I would work now with a studio manager mixing, composing. I miss that creative collaboration.

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Julian May

@julian_may

2 years

The sounds of the sea; reflections of those who listen to them intently - a visually impaired surfer, a herring fisherman. The life story of a wave, and new poetry by Katrina Porteous. All in The Susurrations of the Sea on @BBCRadio4 at 11.30 this morning

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Julian May

@julian_may

4 years

'This is Illyria, lady.' Yes, and it's Deptford Creek. Working river.

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