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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tonight on In Concert 7.30pm @BBCRadio3 a fantastic concert from BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Johanna Malangre allied to Key Changes, our Essential History of Classical Music. Music on themes of Protest, Power & Resistance. Presented by Gillian Moore www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mother Courage is the subject of today’s Roleplay 4pm @BBCRadio4 looking at some of the great dramatic roles. Fiona Shaw, Maggie Steed, Michelle Terry, Liz Carr & Ursula Yovich on what it’s like to play #Brecht’s complex protagonist. Producer Eliza Lomas. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Travel to La Serenissima with Composer of the Week Mon-Fri 4pm @bbcradio3 as Donald Macleod explores the explosion of music making in C16th #Venice, led by Adrien Willaert and the composers of the Venetian School. Producer Sam Phillips. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street #otd. Mosley Must Fall by Martin McNamara tells the story of an Irish family divided as British fascists prepare to march. Directed by Anne Isger & starring Stephen Hogan, Maggie Cronin & Joseph Ayre @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Mosley Must Fall by Martin McNamara

An Irish family is divided as Mosley's fascists prepare to march through East London.

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1832: Ballet En Pointe 🩰 Key Changes: @BBCRadio3's Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @katewilliamsme.bsky.social 1pm Sat 3 Oct or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Megan Jones #ballet #dance #history #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Glory days: so proud of the boss team behind Legend: The Bruce Springsteen Story @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds - Gold award winners, Arts & Culture, British Podcast Awards 🏆 @ladymissbarton.bsky.social @quietguynoises.bsky.social Mair Bosworth & Eliza Lomas. Listen here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron- Priested shore… ‘Poem in October’ by Dylan Thomas bit.ly/2LCkbTy

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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

And to learn more about the rise of the virtuoso performer, Key Changes looks at the demonic talent of Niccolò Paganini, Clara Wieck & Franz Liszt. 1828: Playing with Fire. With Gillian Moore & @katewilliamsme.bsky.social 🎻🔥 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music, 1828: Playing with Fire

1828, Vienna. Virtuoso violinist Paganini puts the soloist centre-stage.

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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

And Joan Towers’ Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which features in 1816: Engineering Music 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

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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

And for more of Michael’s insight on the medieval world, listen to Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music @BBCSounds with Gillian Moore. From Hildegard of Bingen to the Sack of Rome. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Key Changes: Radio 3's Essential History of Classical Music, 1026: As simple as do-re-mi

The year is 1026. Monk Guido d'Arezzo causes a musical revolution with a new invention.

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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...

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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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