Hooray! The @folkonfoot.com episode with the brilliant Goblin Band won a Gold Tower at the @newyorkfestivals.bsky.social Radio Awards. Yeee ha!

🏆 Delighted that our episode with Goblin Band in the City of London has won a Gold Tower Award at the New York Festivals Radio Awards. Huge congratulations and thanks to the band and our wonderful Producer, @natalie-steed.bsky.social #NewYorkFestivals #StorytellersGala @newyorkfestivals.bsky.social

“Robin Hood is the May King and Maid Marian the May Queen” - join us in Sherwood Forest for a Robin Hood Pilgrimage with Guy Hayward of the @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social. 🏹 It's our new episode - out now: pod.fo/e/4160e6

Good luck to The Song Detectorists, a second appearance by @matthewbannister.bsky.social in the New York Festivals Radio Awards for The Song Detectorists in the Music Category - all hail @nancykerr.bsky.social and the researchers at @musicheritageplace.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Good luck to @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social in the finals at the New York Festivals Radio Awards in the Arts and Culture Podcast category podfollow.com/1791774082

Good luck to @folkonfoot nominated in New York Festivals Radio Awards music podcast category for the episode with the magnificent Goblin Band AND nominated at #UKARIAS for the 7th time in 8 years (what happened 2020?) www.folkonfoot.com/episodes/gob...

It’s audio awards BONANZA day today @audioacademyuk.bsky.social #UKARIAS and @newyorkfestivals.bsky.social NYF Radio Awards and I’ve got some of my audio offspring in the game: fly my pretties, fly …

The TfL bird-killing machine. www.londoncentric.media/p/homeless-i...

The results are in for Northumberland! Check out our latest blog post at www.musicheritageplace.uk #songdetectorists #ahrc #music #heritage #place

Ahhh, the soft airs of a sprung spring …

Is John Lewis selling … guillotines? What on earth is this?

A Dulwich fly-tip: Little Greene and Farrow and Ball …

Malcolm Grimston. The kingmaker of Wandsworth...

Have a listen to this radio documentary I made about the fantastic Florence Mills - an extraordinary performer from the 1920's ... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature: Finding Florence Mills Allyson Devenish goes in search of 1920s sensation Florence Mills.

Since the death of zipcar I’ve had to factor in extra travel to pick up cars for dump runs etc. Still, nothing like a morning cycle ride in that lovely spring London and a deckchair pause until the booking starts

And yet last year 50% of newly qualified doctors were unable to find a job. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

We’re delighted to be nominated for Best Music at the 2026 ARIA Awards - the seventh year in a row - and in good company too. Great recognition for the brilliant Folk on Foot team. audioacademy.org.uk/arias-nomine...

youtu.be/wmbNw2psEo4?... and here it is in action

Roland SH-2 nostalgia moment for husband as he tests out the teenage dream machine that took him round the pubs of Camden in the 80s ready for ebay sale and a second life ...

Whoop! Edmund Thornton Jenkins at the Proms! 22nd August with @chineke.bsky.social Check out his amazing story in this Sunday Feature I made with @mapleivory.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I grew up with Roseberry Topping always on the horizon but this was the first time I went up it and in fantastic company…

Delighted to see these podcasts/ programmes make the @newyorkfestivals.bsky.social Radio Awards shortlists. I had an absolute blast making them: @folkonfoot.com Goblin Band in the City of London; The Song Detectorists for BBC R3 & @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social. Minuscule teams but a MIGHTY ensemble.

Absolutely delighted to announce that the Song Detectorists, featuring the @musicheritageplace.bsky.social project, has been shortlisted in the 2026 New York Festivals Radio Awards thanks to the amazingly talented Rhubarb Rhubarb producer @natalie-steed.bsky.social Congratulations Natalie!

As we walk with Lady Maisery in the grounds of Petworth Park, Hannah James pauses to demonstrate her yodelling skills. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: pod.fo/e/3b366e

🆕 New episode out now: hear the beautiful harmonies of Lady Maisery on a walk in the historic Petworth Park in West Sussex. 🎧 Listen here: pod.fo/e/3b366e

@lisaocarroll.bsky.social Was interested to read your article about dual citizens without uk passports being unaware of new rules etc but did you know that even if you travel with your uk passport done airlines won’t allow you to enter the uk. Eg if you fly out on your, say, german passport

Well, this looks fun ….

‘As a friend of mine said, misogyny is like water: stop up one leak, and it will spill out somewhere else. If a man is inclined to sexual abuse, he probably won’t lack chances.’ Susan Pedersen on Epstein and entitlement. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Our latest episode, featuring Rowena Jackson and Philip Chatfield is out now. Find it on any podcast platform or at our website - search for Voices of British Ballet.

Really saddened to hear of the death of the legendary Paul Conroy at just 61 - one of the bravest, best and kindest of people and an astonishingly good photographer to boot. Here is his last work for Byline Times. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/paul-conro...

Oh my giddy aunt. Neil Kinnock on music (lack of Brits knowledge, death of Neil SedAKKA - “Breaking Up is SO Hard to Do”; remembering the song at his wedding) on Broadcasting House this morning. Stupendous.

First class work from a first class team on an economy class budget. (To which you can contribute…)

Never been happier to be a subscriber to London Centric. As the story says, "London Centric can spend the time piecing together these stories because we’re funded by subscribers willing to back proper investigative journalism and who want us to take on vested interests, and have real impact."

This was one of my absolute favourite episodes to make. What a woman. What an artist. What stories. Glorious. (Plus - the added bonus of Nancy Kerr popping in for a bit of a jam ...) #bagpuss #happybirthdaybagpuss #oldfatfurrysagpuss

Free 10-week art-history course at the Courtauld for state-school pupils this spring. www.arthistorylinkup.org/programmes/h...

It’s astonishing how little is known about the impact of ketamine use in universities and schools. We’re going to need a revolution in wipe down seats technology in those grad job firms …

Alastair Macaulay talks to Dame Darcey Bussell in this week's extended episode. Darcey talks about her graduation performance @royalballetschool.bsky.social and the creation in 1989 of the role of Princess Rose in Kenneth MacMillan’s The Prince of the Pagodas.

In April, I’m running a Feminist Writing retreat for writers of all genres & levels. We’ll work on how to highlight everyday sexism, describe unequal power between men & women, challenge stereotypes when portraying women and craft female-friendly language. rachelhewitt.org/retreats/fem...

I lost my heart (and my shoes) to the shining sands of Holy Island …

But… but is there *ANY* way this could be a woman’s fault…?

‘People like Mandelson’ - except he doesn’t seem to be an especially outlierish outlier when it comes to money giddiness.

Wonder what that George Orwell would have made of the giddy-money-lust-moral-disruptor farce of Cameron era attempts to secure a meeting with Woody Allen via Jeffrey Epstein by the current chair of @orwellprize.bsky.social political writing panel, Rohan Silva? (Nice work from @londoncentric.media)

Hello teachers. Today I recorded 35 poetry workshops for you to use with your classes. 10 are for Early Years, 25 for KS 1,2 and Year 7. These are to go with the 11 that are already up on our channel. Thanks to @ApplesAndSnakes for support.

Testing out a new cassette tape transfer device l’m listening to a recording made in the dressing room just before a performance in 1976 of My Fair Lady in NY. Apparently Jerry Adler was in the night before and wanted to discuss his new Colonel Sanders project - a musical? a play?

In our latest episode the dancer Dianne Richards tells some wonderful stories about her time dancing with Festival Ballet including this beautiful account of the last time Dianne saw Alicia Markova dance Giselle.

Absolutely brilliant story. London Centric doing actual news investigations is one of the very best things.

Our latest episode is a conversation between Richard Alston and Alastair Macaulay. Alston explains how, as a teenager, he was entranced by watching ballet. After studying fine art, he began working on the Martha Graham technique with what became the London Contemporary Dance Theatre.

The amazing Blanche Marvin who, when I worked foh at BAC (in the pre-historic era) would sometimes attempt to see all 3 shows in the one evening. www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre...

Intrigued by Amol Rajan’s characterisation of the “digital creator economy” as “Narnia”. Always winter and never Xmas? Grown women not wanted (put that lipstick down, Susan!)? Plus who is he in this scenario? Lucy? Reepicheep? Aslan?