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.
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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
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!
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
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.
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
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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)
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
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
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!
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.
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.
(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.
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.
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
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