The fire, drama & soaring beauty of #Verdi’s #opera La Traviata are explored in How to Play at 9.30am @BBCRadio4 with the artists of @operahollandpark.bsky.social & City of London Sinfonia as they prepared for their recent production. Producer @jolyonjenkins.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I think these were all arrested

About 15 people being arrested in Bristol for holding signs supporting Palestine Action

It looks as though Putin should take some golf lessons

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

It feels literally like a waste of space for @theguardian.com to give Owen Jones a column to enumerate the US’s historic shortcomings. Imperialism, slavery, segregation. We know all this. The question is what to do now. I see few ideas coming from that quarter

There’s a trail on bbcradio3 where Jenni Murray challenges us to name 10 women composers. Actually that’s pretty easy, though partly because bbcradio3 has spent time and money raising their profile. Slightly odd that JM should imply that it’s virtually impossible.

I have a feeling that Greenland will turn out to be a far away country of which we know little

I'm probably in a minority, but the wall to wall Christmas music on bbcradio3 is doing my head in