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Emma Harding

@emmaharding.bsky.social
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Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-hard…

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
21 years of the BBC National Short Story Award, which has done so much to champion the form. Spearheaded by the indefatigable Di Speirs. The winner will be announced live on Front Row 7.15pm tonight @BBCRadio4 Listen to the shortlist here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award
Stories shortlisted for the National Short Story Award
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Composer of the Week with Donald Macleod explores the life & work of Cyril Scott (1879-1970) - English composer, writer, poet and occultist. Mon-Fri 4pm @BBCRadio3 & @BBCSounds Producer Luke Whitlock www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Men become mortal the night their fathers die.’ Welsh poet and physician Dannie Abse born in Cardiff #otd 1923. Portrait by Josef Herman, National Museum Wales www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/thre...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘This is the greatest show…’ Composer of the Week celebrates some of C19th music’s Greatest Showstoppers. Today at 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the 'Valkyrie of the Piano', Venezuelan pianist & composer Teresa Carreño. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
1777: Chilgrove. Ring-ousels on the downs on their autumnal visit. Lapwings about on the downs attended by starlings; few stone-curlews. Sweet Italian skies. The foliage of the beeches remarkably decayed & rusty.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Playing with Fire 🎻🔥Delighted to welcome @katewilliamsme.bsky.social to the next instalment of Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore 1pm Sat 19 Sept or listen now @BBCSounds Producer David Fay www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Protest, Power, Revolution and Resistance - If you’re enjoying @BBCRadio3’s Key Changes & you’re anywhere near Cardiff @BBCNOW are playing a fantastic programme of music linked to some of the series’ big themes. 3pm Sat 26 Sept, presented by Gillian Moore www.bbc.co.uk/events/ern4mb
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Protest, Power, Revolution, Resistance
Protest, Power, Revolution, Resistance is a concert with something urgent to say. Conducted by Johanna Malangré, Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie in France, the programme showcases her elec...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?’ Not Christopher Nolan but Christopher Marlowe. Just 3 days left to listen to Doctor Faustus @BBCSounds - the ultimate example of monstrous vanity & short-termist thinking. John Heffernan & Pearl Mackie star. #theatre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, Doctor Faustus
Marlowe's tragedy of a man who gains control over nature but loses control of himself.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In Key Changes we’re in 1822 & in Composer of the Week we’re in 1824, the year Franz #Schubert composes his Rosamunde String Quartet. Kate Molleson journeys through the last five years of his all-too-brief life. 4pm @BBCRadio3 Producer Luke Whitlock www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Schubert at the Piano by Gustav Klimt (1899), a painting destroyed in a fire in May 1945 along with other works stolen by the Nazis. Depicts Schubert playing piano by candlelight with two female singers and others listening
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
…button after button
Sprang off and fell in a trail
Between the Underground & the Albert Hall. Honeymooning, mooning around, late for the Proms,
Our echoes die in that corridor and now
I come as Hansel came on the moonlit stones
Retracing the path back -Seamus Heaney #bbcproms
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'Figaro, Figaro, Figaro...' Key Changes @BBCRadio3's Essential History of Classical Music 1pm Sat 12th Sept. 1822, Vienna. Rossini arrives to a celebrity welcome as #opera fever takes hold. With Gillian Moore & Simon Schama. Producer Chris Taylor. And a taster care of ENO... youtu.be/1cO0V9In-HM?...
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Charles Rice sings Largo al factotum at ENO
YouTube video by Athole Still Artists
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
‘I took my love, I took it down…’ Landslide by Fleetwood Mac is today’s Soul Music 1030am @BBCRadio4 Written by Stevie Nicks in 1973 on the cusp of huge change in her life, for many it has become an anthem of quiet courage. Producer Eliza Lomas @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
The enduring song of quiet courage and acceptance in the face of passing time.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Eighth of September …This day our bodies grew stretched out to Earth’s limits, orbited there, melded there to one globe of wax, or a meteor’s flame. A strange door opened, between us, and someone, with no face as yet, waited for us there. - Pablo #Neruda transl A S Kline
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Villa Forgotten. Very excited to tell you about this new commission for @BBCRadio4 - a chilling tale by Jeanette Winterson 22.45 Mon-Fri or find @BBCSounds Producer Fay Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - The Villa Forgotten by Jeanette Winterson
An original, eerie story, written and read by Jeanette Winterson.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
‘-The history of the world, my sweet… Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat -And, Mr. Todd, too, Mr. Todd Who gets to sell!’ Stephen #Sondheim is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 with Donald Macleod 4pm Mon-Fri Producer @rosieboulton.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A theft. A shyster showman. And a new era of marvellous machines. Music meets the age of engineering. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama 1pm or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“Oh the Summer time is coming. And the trees are sweetly blooming…” Wild Mountain Thyme - also known as Will Ye Go Lassie Go? is the subject of Soul Music 10.30am Sat 5 Sept @BBCRadio4 Musicians & fans share personal stories connected to the song. Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Wild Mountain Thyme
Will Ye Go Lassie Go?
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The wonderful Michael Wood gives the Anglo-Saxons right of reply in King Harold Writes Back 11.45am @BBCRadio4 #NormanDay #BayeuxTapestry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - King Harold Writes Back
Historian Michael Wood on the place of the Norman Conquest in British cultural imagination
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Back to school… ‘Mental Arithmetic’ (1895) by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky
Painting of a village classroom in Smolensk Province in which a group of young boys ponder a maths question.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Very sorry to learn of the death of poet Wendell Berry. Such an important advocate for our relationship with the natural world, the beauty of wild things & the value of small, individual actions.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) is our @BBCRadio3 Composer of the Week at 4pm. Today, Kate Molleson follows young Elisabeth Jacquet as she joins the court in Versailles - and the circle of the most powerful woman in France. Producer Julien Rosa www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Portrait of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) by Francois de Troy
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it - Seamus Heaney, Blackberry-Picking
Blackberries, painting by Harold Harvey from 1922, which shows two women picking blackberries in a field
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The arrival of the dance that even Lord Byron thought morally suspect… Gillian Moore & Simon Schama take to the floor for the #waltz. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music: A Viennese Whirl 1pm Sat 29 Aug or listen now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A clue to this week’s episode of Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music… Coming up on Saturday at 1pm. Or find it now @BBCSounds
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I Will Always Love You…. what #DollyParton’s classic has meant to fans worldwide. Soul Music @BBCSounds produced by Karen Gregor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, I Will Always Love You
Written by Dolly Parton... sent stratospheric by Whitney Houston.
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Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In around 1563 William Shakespeare’s father, John, supervised whitewashing over the 15th century wall paintings in the Guild Chapel, Stratford on Avon. Careful restoration now gives us glimpses of extraordinary details. #wallpaintingswednesday
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important…Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. (some favourite Charles Wright lines on his 91st birthday - from Littlefoot) #poetry
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wishing a very happy 70th birthday to Sally Beamish, our Composer of the Week, each weekday @BBCRadio3 at 4pm with Donald Macleod. Producer Ellie Ajao. Catch up @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Photograph of composer Sally Beamish
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music. Episode 21. 1808: “Yes, we will have a pianoforte.” With Gillian Moore & Simon Schama 1pm @BBCRadio3 or listen @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Berlin-born Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) was a founding member of The Blue Rider movement. I particularly love Women Listening - as though the radio itself is a source of light. (Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich) #art
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hypatia - the Greek mathematician & philosopher is the subject of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics 9am @BBCRadio4 when @nataliehaynes.bsky.social transports us to C4th Alexandria in the company of Islam Issa & @adamrutherford.bsky.social Producer Beth O’Dea www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Hypatia by Julia Margaret Cameron (1867). The model is Marie Spartali.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In Composer of the Week, Kate Molleson follows Felix #Mendelssohn's journeys across Europe from Switzerland & Italy to Scotland & Wales. Mendelssohn’s own paintings below… Producer Ellie Ajao. Each day at 4pm @BBCRadio3 or any time @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Key Changes: 1807, A New Quartet @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music explores a quartet “not written for humans” & the revolutionary Ludwig van Beethoven with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama. Producer Chris Taylor 1pm or listen now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Soul Music - @BBCRadio4’s series on the lasting emotional power of songs returns 1030am today with Boney M’s disco hit Rasputin. Stories from Iran, Russia, Cameroon, Thailand & Scotland! Featuring original lead singer Liz Mitchell. Producer Maggie Ayre #music #disco www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Rasputin by Boney M
Why a disco song about a Russian priest still brings joy today.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
how can it be so late all at once somewhere the Perseids are falling toward us already at a speed that would burn us alive if we could believe it but in the stillness after the rain ends
nothing is to be heard but the drops falling - W S Merwin, Nocturne II, #Perseids
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Clair - 2.15pm @BBCRadio4 Jenni Adams isn't your usual private detective. She's a clair - with powers that give her tantalising glimpses into past & future. And now a young woman has gone missing. Hannah Daniel stars in @philippalmer.bsky.social new Welsh fantasy drama www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Clair
A missing woman. A private detective with clairvoyant powers. Jenni Adams is on the case.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Loved Birmingham Rep’s ferocious production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Ramin Karimloo & Meow Meow. Uniformly excellent singing. Elin Steele’s design & Rory Beaton’s lighting chillingly powerful. Directed by Joe Murphy. One more week to catch it! www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/swe...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
When Madame la Guillotine beckons, two composers must use their hands to save their heads. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama. Ep 19. 1794: Les enfants de la patrie 1pm Sat or listen now @BBCSounds #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Alongside the latest ep of Key Changes, which looks at The Marriage of Figaro, Kate Molleson tells #Mozart’s story in Composer of the Week through five relationships that shaped his life & music. Today, his father Leopold. 4pm @BBCRadio3 Producer Megan Jones www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A Good Read 3pm Mon 3 Aug @BBCRadio4 Education activist Dr Vee Kativhu and Archers actor Susie Riddell discuss books they love with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Sarah Goodman #books #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Dr Vee Kativhu and Susie Riddell
Harriett Gilbert meets an education activist and an actor to discover books they love.
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Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
August #AudioDrama recommendation: Doctor Faustus 🔥🔥🔥 @emmaharding.bsky.social's adaptation of Marlowe's play really shows how to use the medium. Catch it on #BBCSounds for the next month and a bit - it's due to disappear in mid September. #RadioDrama #DramaOn3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama Ep 18 The Figaro Revolution 1pm Sat 1 Aug or find whole series @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Our Composer of the Week is C19th Londoner Alice Mary Smith - a series only made possible by new recordings by BBC performing groups. Donald Macleod charts the life & career of the first women in Britain to have a symphony publicly performed. 4pm @BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 @harriettsg.bsky.social is joined by children's author Lauren Child and musician David McAlmont to talk about books they love by George Orwell, Elizabeth Strout and Alan Bennett. Producer Sally Heaven. #books #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Lauren Child and David McAlmont
The children’s author and the chart topper talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Delighted to welcome Simon Schama to Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of #ClassicalMusic with Gillian Moore. Simon talks to @petroc.bsky.social on In Tune c.6.30pm. From Haydn to Rossini via the French Revolution & Jane Austen’s piano. @BBCSounds #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Handel’s Messiah is the subject of the latest Key Changes & Donald Macleod expands on #Handel’s story - from Halle to Hanover Square - in Composer of the Week 4pm each weekday @BBCRadio3 Producer Ellie Ajao #classicalmusic #history 1/3 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy47
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Post-war love, post-war trauma & the fall of the Berlin Wall. Geoff Dyer & Cariad Lloyd join @harriettsg.bsky.social to recommend A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 Books by Shirley Hazzard, Richard Flanagan & Sheena Kalayil. More book recs @BBCSounds Producer Eliza Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Cariad Lloyd and Geoff Dyer
Harriett Gilbert is with a comedian and a writer to talk favourite books.
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah hits Dublin in Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 18 July or listen any time @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy #classicalmusic #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The #SpanishCivilWar started 90 years ago #otd “My corpse a photograph taken by fate… I shall remain As faithful to the vanished moment’s violence As love fixed to one day in vain. Only the world changes, and time its tense.” Stephen Spender ‘War Photograph’ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Photograph: The Falling Soldier, Robert Capa, 1936
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Dawn of Music | alongside Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music, archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett digs into deep time to examine how, over the millennia, we came to make music. And how, in turn, music has made us. 21.45 Producer Becky Ripley www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music
Archaeologist Dr Brenna Hassett examines how over the millennia we have come to make music
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