Alasdair Cross

Author of Spitfire Kids and producer of history and environment shows for the BBC

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

@jackaudiodotwav Apologies for taking so long to reply- please email me on [email protected]

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

@lewis_louisa @BBCRadio4 @wmarybeard Glad you enjoyed it- I learnt so much travelling with @wmarybeard

[Louisa Lewis @lewis_louisa]

I’ve spent the last week strolling around Pompeii and Oplontis dreaming about what life was like for a 1st century Roman and I found the @BBCRadio4 podcast #BeingRoman a perfect accompaniment, @wmarybeard is the best travelling companion.

🎧 https://t.co/rsPM9du6zt

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

What was top of Viking playlists? Join @EinarSelvik1 @wardruna and Eleanor Barraclough for a saga odyssey in search of the Music of the Vikings @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds https://t.co/jzd7WdogqE

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

On Tuesday on @BBCRadio4 at 9.00 am the next episode of Being Roman explores Roman pub culture and we meet a pair of publicans, the delightfully named Calidius Eroticus and Fannia Voluptas!

[BBC Open Country @BBCOpenCountry]

Today we're in Shropshire exploring what remains of the garden and house where Charles Darwin grew up and which sparked his interest in the natural world - with @JudePiesse @BibbsC and @ShropsWildlife . Thurs 3pm, Sat 6am, or any time on @BBCSounds https://t.co/PFDC4np1er

[The Food Programme @BBCFoodProg]

What’s really in your spice rack? In this week’s programme, @jaegawise road tests a new device to investigate the authenticity of everyday herbs and spices and hears from experts on the frontline of food fraud defence. Tune in at 12.30 on @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds.

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

@TheDoctorBob It's the relentless reorganisations that keep us sharp. Apparently.

[BBC Open Country @BBCOpenCountry]

Tales from The Quoile River in Co. Down as @HelenMark01 hears yarns of Vikings and steamboats and of the devastation it caused recently when it flooded Downpatrick. She meets locals who are stepping up to improve their waterway for nature and the community. 3pm Thurs @BBCRadio4

[BBC Get In @BBCGetIn]

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See https://t.co/EnRVWHPcLs for more details!

#BBCGetIn #Apprenticeships #Apprenticeship

[BBC Open Country @BBCOpenCountry]

How nature is helping asylum seekers - while at the same time asylum seekers help nature! @HelenMark01 meets the volunteers from @action_asylum who have teamed up with @North_Wales_WT to plant 2000 saplings in Denbighshire. @BBCRadio4 28 Jan 3pm. (Photos courtesy of AHMED NADI)

[The Food Programme @BBCFoodProg]

For more than 20 yrs @thedanbuettner’s been researching the lives of people living into old age in parts of the world he’s called Blue Zones. What links them & what can we learn of their food and eating rituals? Join @leylakazim @LizWilliamsRNut @Oli_Shannon at 12.30pm @bbcradio4

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

The final episode in our Being Roman series features a freed slave from Hertfordshire (as now) and her Syrian husband who ended up in South Shields. Weds 11.30 @BBCRadio4 or available now on Sounds https://t.co/oRbdhvZ03q

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

On Weds the 5th character of our 'Being Roman' series focusses on a frustrated & cross middle-manager in Roman Egypt, trying to organise a royal visit (we can imagine!). Weds 11.30 @BBCRadio4 & already here https://t.co/Xlp6pKvF9C Thanks to Margaret Mountford, Colin Adams & more!

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

One of the great Barrowlands gigs. Tough to lose John Byrne in the same week as Shane. Both looked at the world with a combination of emotional intensity and dark humour. Very Glasgow.

[Lost Glasgow @LostGlasgow]

With Shane MacGowan gone to the great pub in the sky, it's worth remembering that Glasgow was the first city in the world to hear him duet live with the normally stage-shy Kirsty MacColl on Fairytale of New York.

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

(S)he's not in a good way. We interviewed the brilliant willow artist Serena de la Hey for @BBCR4OC when she was weaving it and it's been an elegant waymarker on trips to Cornwall. Now hemmed in by bland estate and hideous warehouses. I'd love to see him repaired and elevated.

[BBC Somerset @bbcsomerset]

What do you think should happen to the Willow Man?

He could be repaired or rebuilt and even moved somewhere else.

@SomersetCouncil has been given a grant to work out what to do with him and wants your views.

[Farming Today @BBCFarmingToday]

From soap opera farming on Emmerdale, to farming for real in the Peak District - with a dancing detour en route. @CazGraham1 meets @kelvin_fletcher to find out about acting, agriculture and life after #Strictly . 26th Nov 6.30am or any time on @BBCSounds
https://t.co/Xh6SnXsiVR

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

@wmarybeard @vizcomic is rarely wrong

[Alasdair Cross @SpitfireKids]

@MrTDixon_ @radioacademy Brilliant news Tommy- very well deserved