Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In a delightful surprise, we won gold at the British Podcast Awards this evening! All credit to Mair Bosworth, Eliza Lomas, Hannis Brown & Emma Harding, who all made it something special 💫 2151
Reposted by Laura BartonPaulApp0505 @paulapp0505.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.uncut.co.uk/features/bey... Another wonderful article by #LauraBarton #Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net @ladymissbarton.bsky.socialuncut.co.ukBeyond "Born To Run": 20 Bruce Springsteen deep cuts you should hear - UNCUTFrom B-sides to outtakes and live cuts, here's our rundown of 20 lesser-spotted Bruce Spingsteen gems 133
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I, too, have written about the wonder of Dolly Parton 092
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026A marvellous evening celebrating a truly marvellous book! 130
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Thank you! The offices are exactly as one might want them to be, I promise. 020
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I do know what you mean - there were other bits of the interview I couldn’t fit in that touched a little more on that subject. It’s so interesting. 110
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I shall give you the bus exclusive next time we meet! 010
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I find it really interesting that so many musicians have been so directly critical of Trump this time… 110
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Interviewed Paul McCartney for today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...theguardian.com‘I can gauge John’s reaction: that’s good, stick that in’: Paul McCartney on how old bandmates – and Oasis – inspired his nostalgic new albumAt 83, McCartney is looking back for his 18th solo LP, to formative flirtations, family singalongs, even his own birth – and the febrile times that mirror our own. It’s given him ‘every hope that we’l... 117110
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026This is very kind (and I don't agree) but I did really enjoy writing about my Mum. The whole series is a lovely thing. 0100
Reposted by Laura BartonMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comGladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technologyShe made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman. 13674818519705
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Thank you very much - loved making that one! All credit to @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social 010
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 19/01/2026I think maybe that was a programme I made about bells? 000
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025(I’m not a total misery-guts, as I hope my role in @amyfleming.bsky.social’s wonderful piece for the same series rather proves) 030
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Wrote about a dismal NYE for the Guardian’s Big Night Out series: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comMy big night out: I realised I could leave the house party behind – and everything else that made me feel smallIt was New Year’s Eve and there had been fireworks, drinking and dancing. Amid it all, I felt ashen and cold. As I walked out, I felt my first surge of quiet liberation 2111
Reposted by Laura BartonCarsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 31/12/2025I could mark a few student essays ... or I could listen to Jonathan Richman's Road Runner and read @ladymissbarton.bsky.social's article. 182
Reposted by Laura BartonDr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Giddy up bitches it’s five gold rings 18310
Reposted by Laura BartonProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 19/12/2025The Killers’ MR BRIGHTSIDE has spent 485 weeks on the UK chart—making it the most successful song never to reach number one. @ladymissbarton.bsky.social on what this reveals about the song—and Britain.prospectmagazine.co.ukThe meaning of ‘Mr Brightside’This Killers’ anthem has spent almost 500 weeks on the UK chart. Its persistence says something about us all 042
Reposted by Laura BartonProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 10/12/2025🎧: Three of our critics—@katemaltby.bsky.social, Lucy Scholes and @ladymissbarton.bsky.social—join Prospect’s @pghoskin.bsky.social to recap the year in culture over eggnog and mince pies.prospectmagazine.co.ukK-pop and Sydney Sweeney’s jeans: Prospect’s critics Christmas partyOur critics look back at the cultural year’s highs and lows 011
Reposted by Laura BartonDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/12/2025The WI gives an honourable statement in response to an enforced decision. There's more in the article 713225
Reposted by Laura BartonProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 11/11/2025After years of poise and perfection, Lily Allen’s latest album drags pop towards glorious, messy normality, writes @ladymissbarton.bsky.social.prospectmagazine.co.ukThe revenge of Lily AllenAfter years of poise and perfection, the British singer’s latest album drags pop towards glorious, messy normality 0132
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Thank you so much (belatedly!). Here’s to many more Bruce shows to come… 210
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Wrote a piece on good ol’Bruce for the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Legend - Five life-changing things that shaped Bruce SpringsteenLaura Barton explains five key things that shaped The Boss’s life and music. 1162
Reposted by Laura BartonEmma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Legend: the Bruce #Springsteen Story continues today with @ladymissbarton.bsky.social 1030 @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds “an informative, contextualising joy” - The Times. Today, Bruce hits the big time. But fame is not an easy bedfellow. Producers Eliza Lomas & Mair Bosworth www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Legend, The Bruce Springsteen Story, 2. Born to RunBruce is living above a beauty parlour, broke, writing songs amongst the hairdryers. 171
Reposted by Laura BartonKat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I’ve just watched a tribute that Meryl Streep gave to Diane Keaton in which she said that Keaton had “a stream of consciousness like a hummingbird” & my goodness that’s it, that was her entirely. 332643
Laura Barton @ladymissbarton.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Small reminder that this series starts this morning at 10:30 on BBC Radio 4 (and available on BBC Sounds): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Legend, The Bruce Springsteen Story, 1. My HometownBruce's story begins in the small factory town of Freehold, New Jersey. 3113
Reposted by Laura BartonRos Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Going to channel Tory conference* and say: just rejoice. (*Thatcher was a great admirer of James Lovelock.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRenewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricityDeveloping countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows. 47115
