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Caroline Wyatt

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Journalist, presenter BBC R4 Saturday PM. Former foreign correspondent. Living with MS.

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 12/06/2026
Here is a gift link to Simon Schama's appreciation of David Hockney's life and art which we ran last year. It's an amazing piece and contains, as you might imagine, some spectacular pictures including an absolute corker of Hackney with Lucian Freud as.ft.com/r/f1473f70-0...
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Abi B @abudd.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
www.radiotimes.com/audio/radio/... #MultipleSclerosis @carolinewyatt.bsky.social
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Caroline Wyatt gets candid about life with MS - and why she thinks the BBC will endure
A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis disrupted BBC correspondent Caroline Wyatt’s career. But 10 years on she’s unbeaten and still broadcasting.
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Incredible www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Sight of someone potentially infectious causes immune response, research suggests
Scientists use VR headsets to see how participants react to faces of people showing signs of viral infections
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Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Oooh that’s v exciting! 😊
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Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
You’re far too kind! Am still enjoying Saturday PM. We have a really lovely team of journalists and they make it a joy to work there!
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Abi B @abudd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.psychiatrist.com/news/fish-co... #MultipleSclerosis
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Fish Consumption Could Slow Disability Progression in MS
Eating more fish could help slow disability progression in MS, with data showing a risk reduction in patients who include it in their diet.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
On dreich days like these it might cheer you up to know that in 19th-century slang an umbrella was a ‘bumbershoot’.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
'Lighted Houses, Amsterdam.' A critic, writing in 1921 (the year of this work) commented, Cees Bolding 'gives us out of very simple elements a perfect nocturne constructed from the domesticity of our back streets... he has complete hold of a subject and has made it his own.'
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Abi B @abudd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
www.psychiatrist.com/news/study-i... #MultipleSclerosis
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Study Illuminates Impact of Menopause on MS Progression
Menopause appears to accelerate neurodegeneration and functional decline in women with multiple sclerosis.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Harry Kernoff's vivid depiction shows Ringsend, Dublin in 1935. Located on the south bank of the River Liffey, it was named from the Gaelic Roinn Aun or Sea Point and in the 17thC took over from Dalkey as Dublin's main port before going into commercial decline in the 20thC.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
'Reading by Candlelight.' (1912) Carl Holsøe frequently used his wife Emilie as a model; she is often depicted as though she is being observed unaware. It is her presence which gives this work its tension, making the viewer feel as though we are intruding on a personal, meditative moment.
'Reading by Candlelight.' (1912) Carl Holsøe frequently used his wife Emilie as a model; she is often depicted as though she is being observed unaware. It is her presence which gives this work its tension, making the viewer feel as though we are intruding on a personal, meditative moment.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
'Evening Falls.' (1917) is a beautiful example of Nikolai Dubovskoy’s mature period when he painted some of his best works. A hugely influential painter, together with Isaac Levitan, he helped create what came to be known as the landscape of mood.
'Evening Falls.' (1917) is a beautiful example of Nikolai Dubovskoy’s mature period when he painted some of his best works. A hugely influential painter, together with Isaac Levitan, he helped create what came to be known as the landscape of mood.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Many of John Ruskin's watercolours reflect an interest in the close observation of skies and clouds, studied at dawn, sunset (as here in 1845) and in varying weather conditions. His interest in these themes was a lifelong one.
Many of John Ruskin's watercolours reflect an interest in the close observation of skies and clouds, studied at dawn, sunset (as here in 1845) and in varying weather conditions. His interest in these themes was a lifelong one, he once observed: 'It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.'
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
'Pink Lustre Mug and Fan.' (1909) William Nicholson’s use of a lustre mug has enabled to display his technical abilities in depicting the reflective nature of its material. In positioning the objects on a reflective table top, he reinforces the mug’s texture.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Flowers, still lifes and domestic interiors are the primary subjects of Ethel Sands’s painting; here they are combined with books on a small bookcase at the Château d’Auppegard, a large 17thC house near Dieppe where Sands and her partner, the painter Nan Hudson, spent summers together from the 1920s
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
It is rare to find Hans Heysen's early work from when he was at Académie Julian and Colarossi’s Academy in Paris in the decade before WW1. This work, painted on a cold Parisian morning, is prosaically titled, 'From the Apartment Window, Paris, 1901.'
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Ville d'Avray, some ten miles from Paris, was to provide Corot with an important subject for his paintings throughout his career. His father bought a country home here in 1817, and Corot never tired of painting the place which had meant so much to him as a youth. This work is from 1834.
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Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
#BBCNews - Over-50s in England offered home bowel-cancer tests www.bbc.com/news/article...
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NHS home bowel-cancer tests to be extended to over-50s in England
More than 850,000 extra people will now be able to return a stool sample to be checked for blood.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
License
Two frame cartoon with a Dalmatian dog in each. The second one has ulti-coloured spots. Caption under the first says 'Dalmatian'. Caption under the second says 'Dalmatian with colour licence'
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
'Rouen: les lumières sur la Seine, pris du Pont de Pierre,' is one of several versions of this composition which resulted from John Atkinson Grimshaw's only known trip abroad, when he escorted his children's governess, Mrs Ruhl, back to Germany in 1878.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
With its thriving port, picturesque architecture and the beautiful surrounding countryside, the coastal town of Kirkcudbright in Scotland has attracted artists from the 19thC onwards. Samuel Peploe's paintings of the town (this is from around 1917) emphasise the geometry of its buildings.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
'Sunday Afternoon, Hyde.' (c1932) Harry Rutherford was described by his teacher Walter Sickert, as: 'my intellectual heir and successor.' Rutherford carried over Sickert's teaching that an initial drawing was about capturing an idea to jog the memory, which was then revisited and developed.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon made studies after many artists, including Velàzquez and Frans Hals and in particular, such as this sunset, after J.M.W. Turner. These works provide a record of his continual process of study; they are not straight copies but interpretations in his own pictorial language.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Walter Bayes' inspiration for this painting from 1917 will have stemmed partly from his former tutor Walter Sickert, who himself depicted cinema in the early years of the 20thC. Like Sickert's work, the focus here is on the audience, the cinema's interior, and the action on the stage.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Philip de László was one of the most cosmopolitan portrait painters of the late 19th and early 20thC, and perhaps the last heir of the grand manner; here (1925) he portrays Viscount and Viscountess Lee at their country house Chequers, later donated to the nation as a retreat for the Prime Minister.
Philip de László was one of the most famous and cosmopolitan portrait painters of the late 19th and early 20thC, and perhaps the last heir of the grand manner - his ability to transpose glamour and vitality onto a canvas often equalled that of John Singer Sargent.

Here, (1925) he portrays Viscount and Viscountess Lee at their country house Chequers, later donated to the nation as a retreat for the Prime Minister; he also co-founded the Courtauld Institute of Art.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/01/2025
What a fantastic story. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...
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He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. (Gift Article)
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
'In the wild north.' (1891) Romantic, uncontrived and unmistakably Ivan Shishkin. His method of working was largely based on meticulous observation and the use of sketches which enabled him to build his own pictorial lexicon of a landscape.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
CAT ADVISORY: Temperatures in the UK could drop to -10c tonight. All cats should IMMEDIATELY find the warmest spot in the house and stay there. Tell humans to bring you snacks and to keep the second warmest spot free in case you want a change of scenery.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Completed in 1903, Monet's windowless silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with its atmospheric array of jewel-like violets and lilacs, cobalt and inky blues, and deep pink tones, appears mystical, as the building dissolves into the expansive, still waters of the River Thames.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
'Miss Hussey.' (c1953) Carel Weight is known for his portrayals of daily life in Battersea and Clapham and for his penetrating portraits, of which this is a prime example. Miss Hussey was a near neighbour in Putney and in Weight's words 'formidable at chess.'
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Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Eek! Hope all goes well. For you and the account!!
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
'A Winter Landscape.' (c1960) Jeremiah Hoad's paintings are a product of an intense and spiritual engagement with the landscape, in this case County Donegal. He once said he was baffled how he came to paint: 'it's like a meditation, I end the day not knowing how I arrived at what is on the canvas.'
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Rockwell Kent travelled to Greenland on three occasions between 1929 and 1935 when this picture, 'Iceberg, Sledge-dogs,' was painted. Each time he lived in Igdlorssuit, on Ubekjendt Eiland (Unknown Island). It was during his 1935 trip Kent wrote his book about life in Greenland called 'Salamina.'
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
'Apples.' (c1919) Matthew Smith was a superb colourist whose work owed much both to his early years in France and the Fauve tradition - his paintings possess a muscular vigour and directness quite alien to the predominant styles of painting in Britain at the time.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"I will avenge you, Father"
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Prof G @gavingiovannoni.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#MS_Selfie Q&A 67: the role of iron in MS I think iron chelation may work in slowing down smouldering MS, but it will always be a downstream process ....
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Q&A 67: the role of iron in MS
I think iron chelation may work in slowing down smouldering MS, but it will always be a downstream process ....
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
'Switzerland in Winter.' John Lavery visited the fashionable resort of Wengen in Switzerland in 1912-13 producing mountain landscapes which favourably compare with John Singer Sargent's alpine scenes of the period.
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Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
That sounds like a good idea! Am still coughing and sneezing and feeling quite horrid so staying in bed today. It’s definitely payback for having had a lovely and very sociable Christmas and New Year! 😫😆
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Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
What a choice… hope you come to a satisfactory decision!
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This interior view belongs to a group of five paintings in which Adolph Menzel studied the effects of light in simply furnished spaces he occupied in Berlin between 1845 and 1851. This was his spare bedroom at his house on Ritterstraße and painted in 1847.
This interior view belongs to a group of five paintings in which Adolph Menzel studied the effects of light in simply furnished spaces he occupied in Berlin between 1845 and 1851. This was his spare bedroom at his house on Ritterstraße and painted in 1847.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Walter Sickert painted this view of Maple Street in London around 1925. It’s unclear whether this is a nocturne or is seen under the dark grey sky of imminent rain. He later repeated the composition as a print titled 'O Sole Mio,' a humorous allusion to the street's illumination by streetlamp
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Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Luckily I keep a stash of such things in the house. And am going through them at an enormous rate, particularly the honey and lemons, and tissues! 🤧😬😫
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
'Portrait of Francis Bacon.' During WW2, Rodrigo Moynihan was recruited as an official war artist through the support of Kenneth Clark, the Director of the National Gallery in London. This later led Moynihan to his appointment as the head of painting at the Royal College of Art soon after the war.
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Caroline Wyatt @carolinewyatt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Am languishing in bed with an absolutely vile cold, coughing and sneezing the new year away! How’s your 2025 so far?!
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Landscapes occupy an integral space within Gabriele Münter’s body of work. The natural world inspired her very first foray into painting and it remained a key source of inspiration throughout her lifetime. This picture was painted at Elmau in Bavaria in 1933.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
'Irises.' (1909) Piet Mondrian painted several works featuring irises when his interest in Theosophy was at its height; the Theosophists were an active force in the Symbolist movement at the turn of the 20thC.
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Abi B @abudd.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
www.fiercebiotech.com/research/dru... #MultipleSclerosis
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Drug candidate restores myelin and leg mobility in multiple sclerosis mouse model
An investigational drug for multiple sclerosis from Io Therapeutics has restored leg mobility and myelin nerve coatings in mice, the biotech
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
There is some gorgeous apricity about this morning: (17th century: warming sun on a winter’s day).
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
'Still Life with a Landscape with Ruins.' (1911) Alexej von Jawlensky's use of rich, non-naturalistic colour owes a clear debt to the art of Henri Matisse and the Fauves whom he had first encountered in 1905, when several of his paintings were exhibited at the Salon d’Automne.
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