Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Oh Desert Island Discs has floored me again. Dame Parveen Kumar taking the beautiful trio from Der Rosenkavalier which my mother adored. 💔 040
Reposted by Sarah HemmingSarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Talked to the wonderful Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan about Chekhov’s masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard ❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comKristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan take on The Cherry OrchardAs Chekhov’s final play comes to the West End, the two lead actors discuss why its themes of grief, privilege and social upheaval still seem so painfully alive 1123
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Talked to the wonderful Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan about Chekhov’s masterpiece, The Cherry Orchard ❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comKristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan take on The Cherry OrchardAs Chekhov’s final play comes to the West End, the two lead actors discuss why its themes of grief, privilege and social upheaval still seem so painfully alive 1123
Reposted by Sarah HemmingSarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are knockout in this new staging of Edward Albee’s blistering classic giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star reviewgiftarticle.ft.comGillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star reviewAt London’s Soho Place Theatre, the pair are scintillatingly good in Edward Albee’s vicious portrait of a marriage 041
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are knockout in this new staging of Edward Albee’s blistering classic giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star reviewgiftarticle.ft.comGillian Anderson and Billy Crudup slug it out in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — five-star reviewAt London’s Soho Place Theatre, the pair are scintillatingly good in Edward Albee’s vicious portrait of a marriage 041
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.threads.com/@mrgaz673/po...threads.comGareth Edward Howells (@mrgaz673) on ThreadsTO ALL MAN CITY FANS RIGHT NOW THIS IS FOR YOU 001
Reposted by Sarah HemmingJake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle. 81249233
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Went to see them last night. They blew me away. Sensational. www.theguardian.com/stage/galler...theguardian.comSky’s the limit! Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – in picturesThe always revelatory dance company is at Sadler’s Wells in London this month with two programmes, celebrating their legacy and presenting ‘heavenly’ new works 020
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just saw the superb Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at Sadler’s Wells. Oh my word. Take me to church! 😍 020
Reposted by Sarah HemmingEmma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right. 40900503
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026FFS. People are going to die because of these thugs. 132
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Talked to director Sam Yates about giving Clifford Odets a rare run-out on the English stage: Golden Boy at the Almeida. Such a cool cast for such an influential play giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Sam Yates: ‘The ruthlessness of today’s world is reflected in this play’giftarticle.ft.comSam Yates: ‘The ruthlessness of today’s world is reflected in this play’The award-winning theatre director is bringing Clifford Odets’s ‘Golden Boy’, starring Josh O’Connor, to the UK stage for the first time in decades 051
Reposted by Sarah HemmingRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI 531277313
Reposted by Sarah HemmingChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9259931593
Reposted by Sarah HemmingRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026It won’t stop these reprehensible, cowardly pieces of shit attacking the RNLI, but here is a handy link to donate rnli.org/support-us/g...rnli.orgDonate to the RNLI and help save lives at seaYour donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here. 47786440
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bloke on Five Live: the Dover protestors were patriots like those who went and fought in WW2. Actually those guys were fighting against the blackshirts. 001
Reposted by Sarah HemmingParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026More evidence of fighting age men swarming uninvited into our towns. 1321703432
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Black-clad, far-right thugs marching on ports; protesters beaten up at Reform conference; Suella Braverman insisting school pupils would have to sing the national anthem under Reform; and, worst of all the AfD winning in Germany. Manfred Karge’s Man to Man no longer seems like a history play. 070
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The film Pressure is based on David Haig’s excellent play of the same name from a few years ago. Might be nice to credit him. #r4today 050
Reposted by Sarah HemmingAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026From "I'm not a compliance officer" to "I know electoral law, I know donation law better than anybody" in 35 seconds. 76867254
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Listening to a guy explaining how to make dinner out of your stockpiled goodies - tinned lentils with ‘some lovely tinned carrots’ - and you know what, can we maybe just avoid an apocalypse…? 161
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026No blackshirts here please. Didn’t want em in the 30s. Don’t want em now. 022
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Talking to the phenomenon that is Michael Sheen at #ftweekendfestival this afternoon 🎭🙌 030
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026‘Growing pains’?? Chris Mason on Reform’s grubby money debacle 🤦♀️ 011
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nadhim Zahawi making grubby, insidious remarks about boatloads of ‘men of fighting age’ in effort to distract from this sordid money story. 011
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026‘Everyone’s gunning for us’. Big MAGA-style ‘we’re the victims’ energy at the Reform conference. 021
Reposted by Sarah HemmingHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/09/2026It's the Farage story they are all talking about 3018531
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026‘The British people want this done,’ crows Tice on ‘getting rid’ of the Human Rights Act. I’m ’British people’ and I don’t want this done, you parcel of rogues. 141
Reposted by Sarah HemmingJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 03/09/2026If you’d like to know more about James Orr, here’s this week’s @ftweekend Magazine cover story as.ft.com/r/2ba39ce2-9...as.ft.comJames Orr and the gospel of the new British rightReform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’ 910438
Reposted by Sarah HemmingJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I agree. Google didn't have to rush to bend the knee. But it did. 2333657
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026‘It feels so immediate’ What a joy and privilege to talk to Tilda Swinton and the fab creative team reuniting for Man to Man, Manfred Karge’s groundbreaking play nearly 40 years after they first staged it: 042
Reposted by Sarah HemmingEmma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Late 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 042
Reposted by Sarah HemmingAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Lol Google this is such loser behaviour 7680117
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026‘It feels so immediate’ What a joy and privilege to talk to Tilda Swinton and the fab creative team reuniting for this groundbreaking play @royalcourt.bsky.social : giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Tilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 yearsgiftarticle.ft.comTilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 yearsThe actor makes a long-awaited return to the stage in Nazi-era gender-swap play ‘Man to Man’, a hit in 1987. She and her collaborators explain why it’s time for a revival 020
Reposted by Sarah HemmingSarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026What an absolute joy to spend time with the incredibly gifted team bringing Manfred Karge’s seminal Man to Man back to the stage, four decades after they premiered it: Tilda Swinton, Stephen Unwin, Bunny Christie and Ben Ormerod. 🔥❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comTilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 yearsThe actor makes a long-awaited return to the stage in Nazi-era gender-swap play ‘Man to Man’, a hit in 1987. She and her collaborators explain why it’s time for a revival 021
Sarah Hemming @sarahhemm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026What an absolute joy to spend time with the incredibly gifted team bringing Manfred Karge’s seminal Man to Man back to the stage, four decades after they premiered it: Tilda Swinton, Stephen Unwin, Bunny Christie and Ben Ormerod. 🔥❤️ giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comTilda Swinton on dusting off her Y-fronts after 40 yearsThe actor makes a long-awaited return to the stage in Nazi-era gender-swap play ‘Man to Man’, a hit in 1987. She and her collaborators explain why it’s time for a revival 021
Reposted by Sarah HemmingScott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Dolly Parton’s Glastonbury 2014 set is now on BBC iPlayer. 415648
Reposted by Sarah HemmingTom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Death must have been reading his Customer Satisfaction Surveys. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comRatko Mladić, the ‘Butcher of Bosnia’, dies aged 84Bosnian Serb commander responsible for Srebrenica massacre dies in prison while serving life sentence for genocide 1184
Reposted by Sarah HemmingRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comTurning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination LibraryCore team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world. 128190498287
Reposted by Sarah HemmingKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.nytimes.comDolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.” 247238585776
Reposted by Sarah HemmingTom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton: the perfect answer to all those weird creeps who think empathy is a weakness. 316830