The Joy of Cambridge: Egyptian-style Art Deco Cinema that the owners want to demolish to maximise profits. Maximising profits is what has killed the earth and its cultures.

A quick reminder that this wee gem goes out this afternoon at 3:45pm. If you miss it you can catch up later on BBC Sounds.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ― Cicero Wishing you a relaxing evening and a fabulous Friday with this reddish pink dahlia delight from Gamble Garden! #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Rosie Dawson reviews two programmes about #Wales, #art, and love offered some welcome respite in a week otherwise dominated by noisy discussion about speech and its consequences #Radio #Reviews 📻🎨

Breathtaking colours on the Isle of Arran today.

After a couple of hours of torrential rain, the skies cleared slightly yesterday afternoon to create this autumnal riverscape at Ogmore, South Glamorgan.

Thanks very much to @theartsdesk.bsky.social for running my review of this year's very inspiring Presteigne Festival (Disclaimer: I live in Presteigne, but I have nothing to do with running the festival, so this is genuinely impartial!) www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

It's Wednesday's Breakfast on BBCRadio3. Good morning! New releases from cellist Pablo Ferrandez & Andrew Davis's final project. There's violinist Lisa Batiashvili playing Prokofiev & remembering Choo Hoey the conductor& mover-shaker who had a huge impact on music in the Far East

Scaling the heights! 🏔️ We loved our stint in the mountains earlier this month. On a free morning we climbed one of the mighty mountains – a little adventure to balance the music-making! 🎶✨ Later this week we’ll be in Rouen for a performance of ‘Mirror of Time’.

The stage is set at St Andrew’s Church for Presteigne Festival to begin tomorrow … presteignefestival.com

Good morning Bluesky. I'm not generally a fan of Bach transcriptions for orchestra, which to my ears make JSB sound stodgy, soggy and bloated, so I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this. A fine tribute to much-missed Sir Andrew Davis. #NowListening #NewReleases2025

Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker. Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path. Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.

Best of the garden mid August 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦

Day 2 of our BBCRadio3 Breakfast roadtrip. Welcome to Westonbirt National Arboretum! Too dark for photos right now, so here's the setup from yesterday afternoon. 6.30-9 30 with live music from the Bristol Ensemble 🌲🌳🌴

Welcome to WWTSlimbridge and day one of BBCRadio3 Breakfast from Gloucestershire, Somerset and taking you to the Proms at Bristol next weekend. And this morning there's live music from folk stars Miranda Rutter, Sam Sweeney and Rob Harbron. 6.30-9.30am all week

Walking from Sheffield to Edale via Stanage Edge, Bamford, Back Tor and finishing at the start of the Pennine Way

Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has quit her job as a government whip in opposition to the government's plans to cut disability benefits The Labour MP wrote in a letter to the prime minister she could not vote "for reforms which include cuts to disabled people's finances" 👏 news.sky.com/story/labour...

Already really warm at 5.30am. The Salford sunflowers are loving it. Breakfast BBCRadio3 is live till 9.30. The dawn chorus was an Eastern Meadowlark in the US of A, Bach Before 7 is from his 1st Orchestral Suite, and there's a hot wind blowing in a song by Monteverdi. 🌻🌻🌻

Farewell to legendary pianist Alfred Brendel, one of the great musicians of our time, who has died aged 94. Brendel was made HonDMus in 1999, and we were privileged to welcome him back to the Royal College of Music in 2011 for an illuminating masterclass.

Really interesting appointment of Gabriel Crouch as artistic director and principal conductor in succession to Paul Hillier, announced today by Chamber Choir Ireland, a unique professional ensemble who always perform really interesting programmes: www.chamberchoirireland.com/new-artistic...

Very pleased to say that my new publishers, Swift Press, will be republishing my novel Villager this September. The link is now up if you'd like to preorder (and the ebook will be available a little earlier): www.amazon.co.uk/Villager-Tom...

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

It may be very small. It doesn't have lots of rooms or loads of space, but it's all mine. I'm very proud that I own, not only this tiny bookshop, but the building that houses it. It has come a long way, and I think that's something to be proud of this #IndependentBookshopWeek!

Big day in Leominster, Herefordshire with the start of the Priory’s 900th anniversary celebrations, a month of performances, talks, walks and stunning exhibitions of art and craft exploring its history and heritage. Details here: prioryarts.org.uk

In the parish: How to make the church building more welcoming

Hats off to Sophie and the team at Crescent Arts centre, the last week of #Belfastbookfestival has been the most inspiring, inclusive and positive celebration of writing, thinking and story. This is what I want this place to be.

Wish this letter good luck! It's asking Royal Mail for special issue stamps to celebrate Britain's postal paths. @letterappsoc.bsky.social

34 Writers Selected for Irish Writers Centre’s National Mentoring Programme 2025 irishwriterscentre.ie/34-writers-s...

Young musicians aged 10-25 can still apply to be part of ABRSM's Youth Advisory Board, championing the voices of children and young people in important conversations about music and music education. Find out more and apply by Monday 30 June: abrsm.org/youthvoice

@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social So lovely to unexpectedly hear you on Front Row just now! A really good discussion given the right amount of time, and definitely whetted my appetite for seeking out the documentary.

We’ve gone from 25% steel tariffs, to 0%, up to 50%, and now back to 25%. We’ve all seen this routine before. Trump causes chaos, Nigel nods along, and British workers pay the price. It’s time the government got serious about trade with our European and Commonwealth allies.

Looking forward to Jane Eyre - my Dad’s last opera - at Grimeborn in August:

Another very busy #VolunteerWeek finalist. Meet Sue from @blackburncathedral.com‬ she is a Cathedral archivist, welcomer, education volunteer, looks after some tours and group visits and an event steward. Wow! "She truly reflects volunteering at its finest.’

So, so nice to meet @johnharris1969.bsky.social after his really interesting conversation with Simon Baron-Cohen at @hayfestival.bsky.social today about his book Maybe I’m Amazed, family life with his autistic son and how their shared live of music helps them all to converse. Thx John!

He did admit they were "awful, awful poems" 😂

We are sorry to hear of the death of the great Danish composer Per Nørgård. What universes he leaves us all to explore in his remarkable repertoire: works of cosmic force, even those of the smallest scale. www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/114...

Nipping to the shop from my parents’ house is so much more scenic than from mine

The premiere of Sasha Scott’s Night Owl, written for 12 Ensemble as part of the RPS Composers programme, cast a vivid glow at Norfolk and Norwich Festival last night. It’s a captivating work for string ensemble and electronics, inspired by nocturnal energy.

@gavhiggins.bsky.social Thoroughly enjoying your conversation with Elizabeth Watts on R3 Music Matters - great music choices & fascinating to hear you explain how your brain works, in and out of synch with your body. Thank you. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It was such a pleasure to read these wonderful stories. Huge congratulations to all the writers who’ve made it on to this fantastic shortlist for the @bristolshortstory.bsky.social

At its heart, the evening was an immense celebration of this thing we all adore with all our hearts: Evensong. 2/4

St Mary’s Church, #Lockington #Yorkshire A Norman doorway with three orders, decorated with zigzag. The capitals are rather plain, but one has a face (modern?). A large 14th Century ogee-headed niche cuts into the west side. #AdoorableThursday #Romanesque

Adventures in public history - the first time I’ve had to climb a ladder to reach an archive.

A month today sees the opening events in Priory 900, a vibrant celebration of 900 years since the foundation by Henry 1 of Leominster Priory in Herefordshire. Well worth checking outr their month-long programme of talks, walks, concerts, free exhibitions and more prioryarts.org.uk

“I woke up with a sense of dread…” — from an EU citizen in the UK on how Labour’s new rhetoric is shaking people’s sense of belonging. Powerful open letter. 👇

Final round-up of reviews. A lovely disc to make and really gratified by how well it's been received!

Every member of staff who’s come to talk to me today has picked up this book to have a snoop (and I think Y7 will do the same when I have planned the lessons!) #historyteacher @amylicence.bsky.social

My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight