This is such a grim situation. 4th year medical student daughter looking ahead and wondering if emigrating to Australia might be the only option for her and her cohort. it’s not just lack of specialist training places. It’s any jobs at all for newly qualified doctors.

Today is the 89th anniversary of the #BattleofCableStreet. Find out more about the Battle and East End radical politics, poetry and song in Episode 2 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @thegentleauthor.bsky.social @misssarahwise.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/5Xib...

"My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you." RIP Patricia Routledge.

Patricia Routledge has died, aged 96. Let’s be clear about this: her spectacular performance of Noël Coward’s “I Went To A Marvellous Party” is an utterly delicious masterpiece of comic timing and vivid dramatic intent that will never be bettered. youtu.be/M5xc7HlkjVI

Well we didn’t win but we saw some very lovely podcast chums and has some fun

Some of my favourite ads from The Stage Yearbook 1921 - 1925: GS Melvin - a Scottish music hall comedian and pantomime dame who did female impersonation parodying hikers, girl guides and cyclists with songs: "I Like to Jump Upon a Bike", "Gladys, The Girl Guide", "I'm Happy When I'm Hiking"

Just overheard a very sweet conversation between parent and child refugees - some of those ones from the US we now have in London - about the surprising amount of “jay walking” here. Freedom of the boroughs guys - welcome!

Ah yes, who doesn’t have a portrait of oneself, at six, in the kimono given to us by Whistler …

A classic of the genre …

For all your emergency E F F E C T S! Day or Night! (from the 1947 edition of Who’s Who in Theatre)

Sigh-my trade association sent me an email celebrating the golden opportunity presented by the new legislation around advertising “less healthy food” not applying to audio; alongside a slightly breathless account of how the new AI is/uk deal will help reduce costs- cos less editing.

Hooray for the @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social from @qmul.bsky.social shortlisted in TWO categories in the Independent Podcast Awards. Congratulations to Nadia Valman and Vivi Lachs & thanks to @davidschneider.bsky.social @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Miriam Margolyes and all of our fabulous contributors

If AI bulkshittery wants more names I’m your woman. You can have these for 50p: Jancis Gaybon Minty Harbent Glent Snib Marnie Scooper Randok Aplomb Gouden Fry Naxine Delice Spando Fidget Gaston Melange Skadbon O’Leary Fontaine Shaboolar Goot Spin Nifty Ahoy Skidla Gaffloon

50 gesquillion podcast noise mongers spewing out the jibber jabber and all for free…. but their top “personality” is Nigel Thistledown

Death clearing …

📢 Big news! We’ve teamed up with our friends at @soundrootsuk.bsky.social to launch the Folk Album of the Year Award. Here’s Matthew to tell you more.

Wonderful gig last night by Lady Maisery at the Petworth Festival. Watch out for their episode of @folkonfoot.com coming down the road.

In the latest episode of Voices of British Ballet Lynn Seymour talk about being inspired by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as well as being "blown away" by the Bolshoi's London performances in 1956 when she appeared with them onstage as an "extra". voicesofbritishballet.com/podcast/lynn...

My magnificent friend @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social being, well, maginifcent. Something that should be read and understood by bellends and bellwethers alike www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m finding the memoir outrage interesting. Surely all of it: people, stories of self, stories of distress are always messy, uncomfortable, difficult, fallible, failed and always a bit untrue. Except when they are golloped down by readers hungry for redemption. The woods aren’t only lovely.

Obituary: Maroussia Frank — Stage and screen actor whose career spanned more than six decades and included parts in The Last Confession, Blue Heart, TV’s Midsomer Murders and film The Bay of Silence

Absurdly moved by the bereavement flowers sent by @octopus.energy - and by the kindness and patience shown by everyone we’ve dealt with there. Stand out good deeds in a naughty world. Thank you for making it easier.

Daughter, at Glastonbury for the first time (working for a ticket, and cash) tells me it’s quite good but “not much better than the Lambeth Country Show tbh”.

How can a Victorian mangle make you emotional? Find out in our new episode - as we mark Cuckoo Day in Marsden with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, his band LYR and the people of the village. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2e481b

@octopus.energyhave just sent a help form re death and account

Again I find myself trying to charge a @zipcar.bsky.social - it’s going very very very very - excruciatingly - slowly and I am paying to sit in the heat and service the fleet.

🆕 New episode out now: Simon Armitage and LYR on Cuckoo Day in Marsden. Join the Poet Laureate and his band as they perform poems and music inspired by the people of Marsden, where Simon grew up. Plus, morris dancing, organ playing and the emotional story of a mangle. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2e481b

They were once blacklisted for their ties to Putin. But now some of Russia’s biggest classical music stars are returning to European stages. Their encore is a soft power win for the Kremlin — and has triggered a fierce political reaction from the EU and Ukraine 👇 www.politico.eu/article/russ...

🆕 New episode out now: Goblin Band in the City of London. A fascinating musical journey through the historic nooks and crannies of the Capital with rising stars of the folk world. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/2d616a

Just think of all those children showing "grit" every single day ALREADY because they live in poverty, are carers, have illness in their family, are bullied by their peers (or their teachers).

It's the last episode of The Song Detectorists tonight on Radio 3. What a fabulous time we had criss-crossing England hearing about the music in County Record Offices and especially hearing the wonderful arrangements made by Nancy Kerr for The Melrose Quartet. Tonight it's Henry Atkinson's book.

Episode 4 of The Song Detectorists was on Radio 3 last night featuring this lovely set arranged by Nancy Kerr for The Melrose Quartet from the tune book of Richard Pyle. youtu.be/1kOAEs99WLM?...

Join @matthewbannister.bsky.social and @natalie-steed.bsky.social for the last episode of the #songdetectorists on BBCRadio3 at 21:45. We're in Northumberland exploring a 17th-century merchant's tune book at @nlandarchives.bsky.social. Here's a clip by @nancykerr.bsky.social and Melrose Quartet

Loved this day of rooting about in the books and crannies of that London with these marvellous people - joyful.

Why the endless requirement for “art” to be relaxing and “healing”? I like a bit of roaring, irritating, baffling, enraging, disruptive, angry, upsetting, difficult, awesome, overwhelming, uncomfortable, and yes, broken and empty.

Music from an eighteenth-century tune book unearthed in the County archives is brought back to life by Nancy Kerr and the Melrose Quartet in Matthew’s series “The Song Detectorists” tonight on BBC Radio 3 at 9:45pm, and on BBC Sounds. @nancyannfolk.bsky.social @natalie-steed.bsky.social

The next episode of the Song Detectorists is on BBC Radio 3 tonight at 2145. We're in Wakefield. Meanwhile here's a cracking treat .. the full length version of Nancy Kerr's amazing These Ten Long Years from Epiosde 1 @matthewbannister.bsky.social @musicheritageplace.bsky.social youtu.be/zQcQe0HSwZg

Join me and @matthewbannister.bsky.social on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds tonight for ‘The Song Detectorists’ in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, exploring the personal music book of Louisa Winn and her life at Nostell Priory @musicheritageplace.bsky.social

Heard The Song Detectorists last night (Radio 3, The Essay, 21.45), about folk music in archives, and loved it www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We're looking forward to tuning into The Essay tonight on BBC Radio 3 (9.45pm) and hearing @matthewbannister.bsky.social meet the Song Detectorists to discuss various musical treasures. This is part of the Music, Heritage, Place project that EFDSS is a partner in.

The Song Detectorists is on Radio 3 starting this evening. Me and @matthewbannister.bsky.social of @folkonfoot.com reknown had an amazing trip around England looking at music in County Record Offices, talking to researchers about it and visiting the places connected with the music collections.

In Ep3 of The Song Detectorists we visit the mighty @kresenkernow.bsky.social in Redruth to look at a carol book owned by Eleanor Morgan from 1816. It was used as a source by the collector of Cornish carols Davies Gilbert. One of the carols therein is Hark, Hark What News the Angels Bring.

A little sneaky preview from the wonderful @natalie-steed.bsky.social

Did everyone see Sadie is free. Not the death foretold. (Or perhaps it is?) Who knows. Anyway - DID EVERYONE SEE THAT SADIE IS FREE NOW. (Just me, I guess).

Saw this splendid splendid splendid show this afternoon.

For The Song Detectorists BBC Radio 3 series we worked with The Melrose Quartet to record music found in the County Record Offices of England. The fabulous Nancy Kerr a folk musician and researcher at @newcastleuni.bsky.social made the arrangements for her band.

I've been working on this fantastic project for the past few weeks going into County Record Offices across England with @matthewbannister.bsky.social to look at the music found there, visiting the places associated with it and then recording the music with the marvellous Melrose Quartet.

We are delighted to be sharing our research alongside the Melrose Quartet all next week on BBC Radio 3's The Essay thanks to @matthewbannister.bsky.social and @natalie-steed.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Joan Seaman's extraordinary VE Day: "A lot of people have said, ‘Oh, we were laughing, we were talking, we had dancing in Trafalgar Square.’ No, not me! I was watching the ballet, then afterwards I do what I have done all my life, I was playing the piano!"