He was "devoid of personality”, and “amateur sounding”. His music was “not particularly exciting” and he would "not improve with practice”.
David Bowie’s BBC rejection letter is quite something.
Thinking of the guts it takes to go off piste this way. Can hear the adrenalin in her shaking voice. And the happenstance that her high school colours look like Handmaid robes. Margaret Atwood was fascinated by why some people are compelled to rebel. Here we see it in real time.
Stanley Spencer painted 'At Bourne End,' (1920) while lodging with a trade union lawyer called Henry Slesser - it was a time of important intellectual development and saw him involved with a Christian Socialist circle that included the writer G.K. Chesterton.
Looking forward to chatting with Andrew McMillan about why poetic forms are fashionable again in this new BBC Radio 4 series. This week the sonnet with @jsaphra @hannahlowepoet and #VidyanRavinthiran alongside the wonderful #JulietStevenson https://t.co/utv7BbZOz9
@DPDgroup_news Can you please tell me what the situation on parcels being to Europe from UK is? Something I sent on Christmas Eve has yet to be collected from drop-off point.
Remembering Glenn Gould, born on this day in 1932 in Toronto. Here he is performing Bach's Partita #2 at his cottage in Uptergrove, Ontario in the 1958 documentary “Off the Record.”
"Future researchers will have a window into exactly what individual people were experiencing, in a way that a newspaper account or official document doesn't really capture."
@VoicesofEnglish on The Listening Project with @fifiglover
https://t.co/aGPqzWjdR8
Wow, just got home from training and I’m blown away with the support. It’s not over yet, let’s keep retweeting and tagging local MPs. We need to be the voice for those 200,000 children who have no choice but to skip meals today, I refuse to give up 🗣 #maketheUturn
My older brother @Shivandavis is an (ok-ish) English teacher & is offering free #GCSE-level YouTube tutorials inc #Shakespeare & other #poetry for any parents/ students who need them at this *strange and unusual time* #remotelearning
Me & Dad are on the listening project on @BBCRadio4 today at around 1.30pm
This is us in the gym a few years ago when he was my coach as an amateur, always doing snide moves in sparring and going about in his little vests 😂 Top times together 🥊❤️