Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialJordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to 92131665309
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialJohn Watson @camberwellcollect.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Oscar Kokoschka(1886-1937) ‘Self Portrait’ oil on canvas 1937. Oscar Kokoschka was born on this day. 051
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Whether your Saturday morning looks like exhibit A or B we have the music on @bbcradio3 to start the weekend! #SaturdayBreakfast #kettleon 5223
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Francis Cadell first visited the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland in 1912 and returned every year afterwards, frequently in the company of Samuel Peploe. He felt the light was of the same quality as that in the south of France. 210515
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Good morning! Yes, it’s THAT day. The Third Day of Christmas. Not just one but 3 French Hens bring you your Festive Saturday Breakfast @bbcradio3 A tribute to these three fabulous fowl at 8:30 but Bach writing gorgeousness for 27 December before 7 too. 3213
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Good Morning! Saturday Breakfast @bbcradio3 is live with Mozart, Ravel, Coleridge-Taylor, and Bach before 7. Come join us to start your weekend! 6274
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialLinton Stephens @lintonstephens.bsky.social · 27/10/2025A cracking morning of programming in breakfast today. Steered by the lovely Lissie, Amy and myself. Join us from 6:30. What are you enjoying listening to. Let me know. 9133
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Good morning! Your @bbcradio3 Saturday Breakfast team are raring to go. Thistles, Venus, and Goldberg Variations before 7 but we’re curious: what’s the music that reminds you of home? 6183
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Peder Severin Krøyer's work depicts his wife Marie in their garden at Skagen in June 1892, a picture that puts you on the spot. Like Monet, Krøyer can see colours and contrasts and radiances that most people can't. 015724
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Morning #BBCradio3 Breakfasters 8212
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialFry Art Gallery @fryartgallery.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Acquisition news! Michael Ayrton frequently created imaginative, myth-infused landscapes with classical architecture floating in half-realist, half-dreamlike settings. The Fry Gallery is very grateful to Adam Forman for this generous gift. Sacred Place, oil on chipboard by Michael Ayrton, 1958 121
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Morning #bbcradio3 breakfasters! Proud of myself for setting up the desk this morning. House martins and a finch alongside Bach, Dvorak, and Verdi before 7. 5273
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Morning! #BBCRadio3 Breakfast coming from London this week. It’s Proms Marathon Monday - what have been your favourite Proms so far? 14213
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialLinton Stephens @lintonstephens.bsky.social · 07/08/2025The only angle you’ve yet to see of the studio this week. Who’s up nice and early for this wonderful bit of Bach? 6174
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 30/07/2025If an artist wants to give particular emphasis to something, they have numerous means at their disposal - particularly lighting and luminosity as was the case with William Brooker, as his eye-sight dimmed, his still-lifes became brighter and more vibrant. This is from 1975. 311916
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialWigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk · 10/07/2025Not one, but two ensembles performing at Wigmore Hall next week are on BBC In Tune today ✨ Listen in for live music from Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and Emma Johnson and the Orchestra for the Environment 💫 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f7sl 🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-onbbc.co.ukBBC Radio 3 - In Tune, Live classical music for your commutePetroc Trelawny is joined by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, and Emma Johnson. 011
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialTom McKinney @tommckinney.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Golden Plover in the Pennines was this morning's dawn chorus in Breakfast on bbcradio3. This one 📸 was on the Snake Pass in Derbyshire. Come join us till 9.30! 4456
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialAlexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025A monumental achievement from British Youth Opera (and can someone please hire Mark Le Brocq to sing Grimes again please?). Reviewed Peter Grimes for @ccmusicuk.bsky.social : criticscircle.org.uk/a-rich-haul-... 1123
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialDr Michael Fraser @ffinlo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social have announced an exhibition, "John le Carré: Tradecraft", 1 Oct - 6 Apr 2026. A book, Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carré, will be published by Bodleian Library Publishing. “Oxford was Smiley’s spiritual home, as it is mine.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...theguardian.com‘Like an academic’: private papers reveal John le Carré’s attention to detailExclusive: Oxford’s Bodleian libraries to put archive items on display for first time, celebrating spy author’s ‘tradecraft’ 25014
ruth-rien.bsky.social @ruth-rien.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Peter Grimes at Saffron Hall yesterday with @britishyouthopera.bsky.social Cambridge Philharmonic. A fantastic production and performance! Clever semi-staging and such beautiful singing. It’s on again today @cadoganhall.bsky.social Go if you can ! 020
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025'Still-life Summer Garden.' (1963) Cedric Morris stated in 1928: 'I am inclined to believe that selection from natural forms is the expression of our national genius. From natural objects, I obtain line for lines sake, colour for colours sake, form for forms sake.' 1567
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Free tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) ? Join us at St Mark’s Regent’s Park for music by Elgar, Tomkins, Farnaby, Holst, Tippett, Lloyd and more, interspersed with readings from Trelawny’s Cornwall. 3pm. Admission Free. Maybe see you there …. 0225
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialLinton Stephens @lintonstephens.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Morning Radio 3 breakfasters. Delighted to have you're company this morning. I'd love to know what you're enjoying today. Email me 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk Text 8311 Or send me a tweet @bbcradio3 5163
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialLinton Stephens @lintonstephens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025My inaugural breakfast link yesterday. Join me today for more great music to start your Tuesday on BBC Radio 3 5214
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialFry Art Gallery @fryartgallery.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Finding the Lost Murals of the Bardfield Artists, a talk by Alan Powers and part of our annual Fry Lecture Series, is on Friday 25 April at 7.30pm in the Quaker Meeting House, Saffron Walden CB10 1AA. Tickets £6 on the door or on line. See you there! 063
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialJessica Duchen @jessicaduchen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Super night at BBC Music Magazine Awards. Great to see @errollynwallen.bsky.social as Personality of the Year, Premiere to Adrian Sutton's Violin Concerto w Fenella Humphreys & Michael Seal, Chamber to Nick Daniel & Julius Drake in the Schumanns, Orchestral to Czech Phil & Semyon Bychkov's Ma Vlast 073
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialBachtrack @bachtrack.com · 23/04/2025On top of the chamber music world: read our interview with @wigmore-hall.org.uk’s Artistic Director, John Gilhooly, about the hall’s 125th anniversary season, programming 600 concerts – and finding ways to pay for it all. ✍️Mark Pullinger bachtrack.com/interview-jo...bachtrack.comOn top of the chamber music world: Wigmore Hall’s John GilhoolyThe London venue’s Artistic Director talks about Wigmore Hall’s 125th anniversary season, programming 600 concerts – and finding ways to pay for all it. 1125
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 11/04/202511 April 1987 | Primo Levi passed away. He was an Italian Jewish writer & chemist. From 26 February 1944 a prisoner of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz no. 174517. In September 1947 he published his book "If this is a man". #poetry #history #OnThisDay #PrimoLevi 10496119
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025The new office … In Tune on air at 5pm at BBC Radio 3 with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, conductor@Sir Mark Elder and pianist TianXu An 8777
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Anna Tilbrook asks us to sing along as we cross a rainbow, Bach writes a cantata for a new regime, Hannah Peel surveys a dusty nebula, Britten salutes Young Apollo, Brenda Wootton at Lamorna, Ned Rorem's breakfast & a hydrophone. 47936
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialsaxylizbeth @saxylizbeth.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Tomorrow is the end of an era. Radio presenters really weave their way into our lives like no one else and it’s impossible not to feel their absence. This is like Terry Wogan retiring all over again 😔 Petroc - you’ve been utterly splendid. Thank you. 141
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Today Richard Rodney Bennett eyes up a four piece suite, Khatia Buniatishvili plays Liszt, Trinity College Cambridge in a Motet by Cecelia McDowall and on the anniversary of Hans Christian Anderson’s birth, a Danish Little Match Girl. 8395
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Today Herbert Howells at the end of his life writing a hymn to beauty, Boulez conducts Berlioz in sixties London, Nicholas Daniel and friends play a trio by Madeleine Dring and Rebecca Miller conducts a Symphony by CPE Bach. 6422
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Good morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live. Today Mariss Jansons conducts Wagner’s Tannhauser overture, The Sixteen sing Tallis’s If Ye Love Me, Swedish sop. Johanna Wallroth takes us into the woods w/Stenhammer and Jess Gilham reinvents music for violin & piano by Lera Auerbach 4375
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialGladstone (retired) & Genie 😺 @treasurymog.bsky.social · 30/03/2025In the UK the clocks have gone forward. As ever, here is your helpful guide. You're welcome! 29113
ruth-rien.bsky.social @ruth-rien.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Brilliant performances by all in this concert last night. The new work by Zev Gordon was haunting and fascinating! So good to hear both music either new or not well known to me. 010
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 29/03/2025'Still life of asparagus.' (1697) Adriaen Coorte's still lifes set against a plain dark background, are enormously appealing to the modern eye, his work fell into obscurity in the 18thC and 19thC; a reappraisal about his career was only published in the 1950s. 512916
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Good morning - Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3 Today cherry blossom represented in music by Joe Hisaishi, the mini piano concerto Shostakovich wrote for a film about civil war in Russia, Niamh O’ Sullivan hears birdsong at eventide and Fritz Wunderlich sings Mozart. 5402
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Good Morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is on air. Today Agnes Zimmerman, German born London piano star, works by Arthur Bliss, who died fifty years ago, Tasmin Little soars like a lark and R. Hahn’s music played by the Tchalik’s – a quartet of siblings (with another brother on piano). 5484
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Pierre Boulez (born a century ago today) meets light music master Ernest Tomlinson at a party, Poulenc's Figure Humaine, Mitsuko Uchida plays Mozart and Jakub Józef Orliński sings Purcell with the King's Singers. Start the day well. 7513
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialTom McKinney @tommckinney.bsky.social · 25/03/2025I'm on Front Row on BBC Radio 4 tonight from 7.15. Talking about Radio 3 Breakfast, birdsong and getting up stupdily early ⏰️ 1132
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialMaria, Comrade Ghost @oberonsghost.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Upcoming BBC Radio changes got you down. Sign @mrosesings.bsky.social ‘s petition. www.change.org/p/prevent-th...change.orgSign the PetitionPrevent the BBC from Ceasing Worldwide Broadcast of Radio Stations 111
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialIn Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 23/03/2025O N E W E E K Voting closes in one week for this year's Hall of Fame. Vote now to secure success for Gibbons! 054
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Bonjour! Starting the week with Hildegard, I’m in for Petroc today and tomorrow with producer @barnaby-gordon.bsky.social Let us know if there’s anything you’d like to hear! 17486
ruth-rien.bsky.social @ruth-rien.bsky.social · 24/03/2025@hannahcfrench.bsky.social Good morning Hannah and everyone. Thanks for the gorgeous start to the programme (and the new week) with Hildegard and then Shostakovich ! 020
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialHannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social · 23/03/2025My lunch. And scenes from the springtime of Vivaldi’s life in Venice. All of these feature alongside the recordings of @laserenissimauk.bsky.social and the magnificent mind of Adrian Chandler on today’s Radio 3 Early Music Show. SPRING! It’s on air now and on @bbcsounds.bsky.social 1183
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Today BBC Radio 3 the Four Seasons in one day. On Breakfast we mark the coming of spring. Théotime Langlois de Swarte play’s Vivaldi’s concerto, Spring music from Sibelius, Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith, Glazunov & Copland, and John Craven & Deborah Henson-Conant celebrate Nightingales 10436
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Elena Urioste plays the violin sonata by Mel Bonis, moonlit dancing to the song of crickets in a suite by Max Reger, Mozart on the euphonium with Black Dyke Band and David Childs and Dvorak from Mariam Batsashvili. Do tune in. 6576
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialPetroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski sings from Vivaldi’s Giustino, Walton takes us to Portsmouth Point, Elizabeth Wallfisch with music by Thomas Linley Jr - who was painted by Gainsborough, and Trio Wanderer's Schubert. 9476
Reposted by @ruth-rien.bsky.socialTom McKinney @tommckinney.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Birdsong on BBC 4. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... This incredible documentary / portrait of Irish ornithologist Sean Ronayne is the starting point for today's Dawn Chorus in BBC Radio 3 Sunday Breakfast. Do yourselves a huge favour and watch it! 63710
