I've scripted & presented a @BBCRadio3 show, 'Digging for Words' 9.45pm tonight/online now🎙️Drawing on my PhD & BBC New Generation Thinker work, a mossary of linguistic invention celebrates Nature Matters, Britain's first anth. of nature poets of colour🙌🏾🌱https://t.co/it1WW48ChS
Award-winning YA authors @ManonSteffanRos, Alex Wheatle, Anthony Horowitz and @FrancesHardinge joined @tds153 at @hayfestival to dig into the stories and issues inspiring young readers.
Don't miss it! 📻 @BBCRadio4 tonight at 7.15pm & on @bbcsounds 🎧
https://t.co/Jf8DorrTvAward-winning YA authors @ManonSteffanRos, Alex Wheatle, Anthony Horowitz and @FrancesHardinge joined @tds153 at @hayfestival to dig into the stories and issues inspiring young readers.
Don't miss it! 📻 @BBCRadio4 tonight at 7.15pm & on @bbcsounds 🎧
https://t.co/Jf8DorrTvAward-winning YA authors @ManonSteffanRos, Alex Wheatle, Anthony Horowitz and @FrancesHardinge joined @tds153 at @hayfestival to dig into the stories and issues inspiring young readers.
Don't miss it! 📻 @BBCRadio4 tonight at 7.15pm & on @bbcsounds 🎧
https://t.co/Jf8DorrTvAward-winning YA authors @ManonSteffanRos, Alex Wheatle, Anthony Horowitz and @FrancesHardinge joined @tds153 at @hayfestival to dig into the stories and issues inspiring young readers.
Don't miss it! 📻 @BBCRadio4 tonight at 7.15pm & on @bbcsounds 🎧
https://t.co/Jf8DorrTvAward-winning YA authors @ManonSteffanRos, Alex Wheatle, Anthony Horowitz and @FrancesHardinge joined @tds153 at @hayfestival to dig into the stories and issues inspiring young readers.
Don't miss it! 📻 @BBCRadio4 tonight at 7.15pm & on @bbcsounds 🎧
https://t.co/Jf8DorrTvAward-winning YA authors @ManonSteffanRos, Alex Wheatle, Anthony Horowitz and @FrancesHardinge joined @tds153 at @hayfestival to dig into the stories and issues inspiring young readers.
Don't miss it! 📻 @BBCRadio4 tonight at 7.15pm & on @bbcsounds 🎧
https://t.co/Jf8DorrTvL
Another chance to hear my series of The Essay on writers graves (and the often strange stories behind them) this week on @BBCRadio3 ... Last night it was @LaurenElkin on Oscar Wilde, tonight at 21.45 Paul Muldoon on WB Yeats https://t.co/aVV2A2OUTg
It was great to meet the legendary Nikki Giovanni for last night's Front Row, and particularly hearing the story of how her tattoo of 2Pac came about https://t.co/S5hYW8Cz0c
How was Kazuo Ishiguro's latest project sparked by #DesertIslandDiscs?
The Nobel Prize-winning author tells @ShahidhaBari about writing song lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent, 20 years after picking her track on the @BBCRadio4 show.
Listen now on @bbcsounds 🎧
Looking for a Halloween album? @duranduran join @SamiraAhmedUK to discuss theirs. Plus Bosnian-born artist Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100, @FilkinsDrift walk 870 miles and @sannewman on retelling Orwell’s 1984. All on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds tonight at 7.15 https://t.co/LgCZEJyFoa
LISTEN AGAIN: BBC #NationalShortStoryAward 2023 Shortlist 📻
Here's Nick Mulgrew's 'The Storm' on @BBCFrontRow https://t.co/hVtrUVpRwO
Read all of the shortlisted stories unabridged here: https://t.co/j8qqaKKymd
On @BBCRadio4 today at 3.30, the next, excellent shortlisted entry in this year's BBC National Short Story Award. The Storm by Nick Mulgrew is evocative, funny and disquieting - and perfectly read by Cokey Falkow. A delight to work with both of them on it
https://t.co/VCuOqTvUWY
Plus an unabridged version of Orwell's Animal Farm I made a while ago also available on @BBCSounds read in full by Roger Ringrose https://t.co/e1rhkjursT
There's also a brilliant abridgment of Anna Funder's Wifedom about Orwell's often overlooked wife Eileen, still available on @BBCSounds produced by @LizAllard1 https://t.co/JoiZq0POU3
There's also a brilliant abridgment of Anna Funder's Wifedom about Orwell's often overlooked wife Eileen, still available on @BBCSounds produced by @LizAllard1 https://t.co/JoiZq0POU3
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear.” wrote George Orwell. It's the dictum at the heart week's Open Book with @chris_power. Another chance to hear (wanted or not) about to start on @BBCRadio4 https://t.co/2YhnmBHoVz
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear.” wrote George Orwell. It's the dictum at the heart week's Open Book with @chris_power. Another chance to hear (wanted or not) about to start on @BBCRadio4 https://t.co/2YhnmBHoVz
Packed - and magical - Open Book today with @octaviabr talking to Ann Patchett, @thestephmerritt and @LauraSRobinson. Plus @NK_Adjei on the George Saunders book which changed his life. 4pm on @bbcradio4 and @BBCSounds https://t.co/29tqVPwy9m
I've long loved Bruce Chatwin's ethereal In Patagonia, so am honoured to have brought it to the airwaves and directed it. Stars @russelltovey with a brilliant cast and a lovely adaptation by @SebastinBaczki1 on today at 3pm on @BBCRadio4
https://t.co/jxTmioiJ9Q
On #R4OpenBook @JohnyPitts explores Birmingham's literary heritage and contemporary writing scene with @KitdeWaal, @NatalieMarlow2 & @katemascarenhas. Plus a tour of the childhood home of JRR Tolkien & a visit to the city’s new independent bookshop, Voce.
@elizabday celebrates one of her favourite writers Elizabeth Jane Howard. @ArtemisCooper@stacey_halls and Maria Rejt discuss the often underestimated qualities of her writing. Afterwards catch the adaptation of The Cazalets - all available on @BBCSounds
Megan Nolan talks to @johnypitts Ordinary Human Failings and @VaseemKhanUK and Laura Wilson aka @JamieCAuthor about crime fiction to read this summer as Harrogate Festival kicks off. Plus @valmcdermid on Josephine Tey https://t.co/xUbTzugIJ7