It’s been a good year for the roses

Available now for download globally: Misha and guests discuss Cybernetics www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Afternoon stroll soundtrack: a fascinating edition of In Our Time @bbcsounds.bsky.social

A fascinating conversation featuring @profhelenfulton.bsky.social and Huw Pryce on In Our Time on Radio 4! Follow the link below to hear UWP authors discuss the history of the Welsh Marches at the very appropriately located @hayfestival.bsky.social 📚️ 🎧️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Watching BBC Radio 4 In Our Time recording at @hayfestival.bsky.social, discussing the Welsh Marches

Dr Rhun Emlyn from our Department of History and Welsh History spoke on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time programme this morning, recorded at the Hay Festival. He discussed the impact of the Norman invasion on Wales and the Welsh Marches. 🎧 Listen back here: tinyurl.com/mta76jvz

📻 Prof Helen Fulton (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) joins BBC Radio 4 #InOurTime to discuss the impact of the Norman invasion on the people and land of Wales with Dr Rhun Emlyn, Emeritus Prof Huw Pryce & Misha Glenny Listen to the full programme 👉 brnw.ch/21x2S1i @bristolcms.bsky.social

Coming up at 9am in the UK and (on bbc.com) around the world

A moment of appreciation for Helen, Huw, Rhun and Misha for recording this week’s edition in a sweltering Hay marquee 🥵 (Huw’s shirt bears witness) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A few years ago we piled some twigs up in the corner of the garden in the (vain) hope of encouraging hedgehogs, as I’ve not seen one in town for over 20 years. Then tonight, something was making the dried leaves rustle.…

Better get ready

Coming up at Hay Festival….

We’re on at 4pm when it will feel like 31c. So in at least one way the hottest event at Hay today www.hayfestival.com/p-25594-bbc-...

Enjoying the cooler hours of the day and taking the time to appreciate these and more

Taken from a distance: keeping cool in local park

Do say hello if you happen to be at Hay on Monday when we’ll be discussing the Welsh Marches www.hayfestival.com/p-25594-bbc-...

I'll second this recommendation--so many episodes are truly great that the merely average ones are rare exceptions. I have been pleased by how wonderful a host Misha Glenny is, as the shoes of Melvyn Bragg were not easy to fill. The show remains as indispensable as ever.

This is a vintage episode of BBCRadio4 BBCInOurTime on a vital topic, with Misha Glenny in discussion with @tmbejan.bsky.social, @tedvallance.bsky.social & Clare Jackson. Hear them all on the Levellers www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I planted this rose around the time I made an edition on Tess of the d’Urbervilles back in 2016 - that‘s the name of the rose in this photo. And that reminds me of the time I tried on Umberto Eco’s hat during World Book Club. 1/2

It was a dream come true to contribute to the latest episode of In Our Time, on the Levellers, with Clare Jackson and Ted Vallance. Have a listen!

I had the pleasure of joining Clare Jackson and Teresa Bejan to talk about the Levellers on In Our Time. The episode will be out this Thursday. Profs Bejan and Jackson offered expert insight. I, at least, was wearing an appropriate t-shirt: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Available now for download globally: Indian Indentured Labour in the British Empire, meeting the demand for sugar after abolition of slavery www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Coming up at 9 in the UK and around the globe on BBC.com we have the so-called Levellers who, back in the 17th century, called for more equal rights and helped start a long tradition of dissent www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you couldn’t sleep for wondering about the Garamantes, the perfect solution airs in five minutes on Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This time next week we’ll be warming the pot ahead of our Hay Festival recording (details soon). Event 523, a prime number so effectively primetime www.hayfestival.com/p-25594-bbc-...

TBH I think he’d have been an excellent driving instructor given the chance

even when I’m on a break….history never takes a break

'In our Time: Joseph Roth'. Listen to Misha Glenny and guests discussing one of the great writers on Central Europe after the First World War and on the dying of the old orders with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Available now for download globally: Handel’s Messiah www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

One of the great writers to shape our world 🔊 Contributing to a discussion on BBC Radio 4 show 'In Our Time', Dr Jon Hughes, of our Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, shared his expertise on the work of the writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939). Listen back: https://ow.ly/YwWJ50YVVke

Just listened to the new In Our Time on Joseph Roth with excellent contributions from @riderjon.bsky.social, Helen Chambers & Deborah Holmes: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Pleased to see my Roth biography on the list of recommended reading. See here to find out more: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/endl...

it’s true, you can listen though I’d adjust that a little towards an imperative if that’s ok with you

On air now: Joseph Roth (and since starting on this I’ve found myself buying his books for friends which is a sign) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Chinos: something else that flowed from the Spanish-American War of 1898 (this week’s IOT podcast)

So much insight squeezed into this hour, a great episode. Do not miss the supplemental chat at the end where cybernetics is shown to be a victim of a) its own success (many fields are effectively cybernetics w/o the name), b) its socialist associations, c) of bad blood between Minsky and Wiener.

Marking this with a Daiquiri en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiquir...

Stunning evening in our local park

Impossible to park our car or drive off without our cat first checking we know what we’re doing

Available now for download globally - what happened when the US went to war with Spain www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

In Our Time just did cybernetics. Brilliantly. Featuring our @stsucl.bsky.social colleague @jonagar.bsky.social and our former PhD student Jacob Ward www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Coming up at 9am in UK (and globally on BBC.com) the origins of cybernetics….in the helmsmen of Greek triremes www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Was dark when I came home last night so didn’t see this rose by front door 🙂

Happy Birthday Misha Glenny

Meanwhile for BBC Sounds listeners in the UK here’s today‘s edition on the Indian people who moved across the British Empire to work on sugar plantations following the abolition of slavery there www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Available now for download globally: the story of silicon in our lives and how planet Earth has always been having a Silicon Age www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Our first rose of the year

bbc.com/audio/brand/... Now free for all archaea lovers to hear!

Catherine Harris at Pod, Actually told us about this episode and if you like In Our Time you‘ll want to hear it. Thank you Felix for this great gift to us 🙂https://www.buzzsprout.com/2596226/episodes/19041329

Listening to In Our Time on #BBCRadio4 discussing Escher, and I'm reminded of this classic from the New Yorker

Aha Aha Aha - here’s Misha with his trio of guests on da da da…Dadaism, available for download globally www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...