#Music #Poetry 6 Music Festival: Climbing and Canals @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sunday 10:00 BBC Radio 6 Music Cerys complements the festival by looking at the city's canals with Dr Keith Hendry and the rise of climbing with James Lister from The Climbing Depot. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Music The Blues Show with Cerys Matthews Today 21:00 BBC Radio 2 @cerysmatthews.bsky.social invites stars of the West End musical Marie & Rosetta, Ntombizodwa Ndlovu and @beverleyknight.bsky.social, to perform live in the studio. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Poetry #Music Time Zone tinkering and disappearing dialects @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sun 10:00 BBC Radio 6 Music Ariadna Güell Sans from the Time Zone Initiative on time zone adjustments and Professor Fiona Douglasdiscusses a BBC archive of disappearing dialects. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social #SoundOn 🎺

Tonight we pay tribute to Mike Vernon of Blue Horizon - Otis Spahn, Peter Green, Chicken Shack etc.. we also mark the passing of John Hammond Jr. cue Mike Bloomfield and Dr John and more besides #music #blues @bbcradio2 now … well in one minute

Morning , coming to you live with some remarkable recordings - all live on @bbc6music including not to be missed session from Jesca hoop and composing talk with Camilla George . Where are you at today? Would love to hear news xx

Dyma’r lincs i’r rhaglen ar S4C pan ‘es i i Goleg yr Iesu,Y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol etc i wilo am eiriau Cymraeg/Brythoneg yn Lloegr a’r Alban+ffindes i bowl haircuts, a meudwy yn y coed yng Ngogledd LLoegr Cymraeg ei iaith ( Myrddin) www.s4c.cymru/clic/program... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Links below to what we filmed at Jesus College,Oxford,Nat.Lib. of Wales,Shakepeare’s Globe+looked 4Welsh/Brythonic words still used in Eng+Scot,but also found bowl haircuts+a Northern English Welsh speaking recluse in the woods.(Merlin) www.s4c.cymru/clic/program... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Fado Friday S.F.T.D @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Have a great weekend. youtu.be/Gw4uCWKEuzI?...

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social beautiful to hear meri it is on the show today. We recorded a lovely version of this with our choir Glasgow Madrigirls on a recording for Glasgow 850 last year. glasgowmadrigirls.bandcamp.com/album/the-bi...

Wonderful to hear @mfrancispoet.bsky.social on @cerysmatthews.bsky.social BBC6 programme talking about his new book "The Green Month: poems after Dafydd ap Gwilym"

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social 👀 #RabbitHole

Morning! Am live on BBC6 right now if you want some company and tunes… we talk improvising to silent films, laurel and hardy, and writing music for david Attenborough .. come join me xx

National Trust Cymru is inviting people across Wales to celebrate St David’s Day with a rich programme of cultural events taking place at 15 of its sites on 1 March

Alison Hargreaves was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest solo, unaided, and without bottled oxygen (1995). She was also the first person (man or woman) to solo the six "great north faces" of the Alps in a single summer season (1993). She was born #OTD in 1962. #mountaineering

Evening music lovers - fancy some tunes in the rain? Xx @bbcradio2

Morning!!! Xx live on 6 if fancy some tunage and company

Morning! Thanks if you’re joining me on 6 , plenty of great new music if you haven’t , plus talk of a lovely novel by Candice Chung and we talk to John Carter Cash in a few minutes xx

Am heading to Bath soon- March 19th chat, music and Dorothy Ashby esque Harpings with Amanda Whiting , Under Milk Wood stories and maybe a Way Beyond Blue song or two . It’s been 30 years since its release. See you there ? KomediaBath.co.uk

Join me in a few minutes on @bbcradio2 as we space travel via music to the fire ants , jello and wild and beautiful music ofLouisiana with musician CJ Chenier when we talk and play music by him and also his King of Zydeco father the late great Clifton Chenier 9pm xx

Windbox, groanbox,...not terms of endearment used by Mrs Zipper to describe me, rather other names for the accordion, The King of the Zydeco's favourite instrument - hear all about him with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social on the #BluesShow tonight at 9pm, BBC Radio 2

#Music #Poetry @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sunday 10:00 #BBC6Music Cerys chats to @ianleslie.bsky.social about his new Beatles book 'John and Paul' and Tilar J. Mazzeo about her new #book 'To the Edge of the World', the true story of a pioneering young woman. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social ♥️👂sigh...

Heading in with a bag full of great songs - we go live at 9pm tonight on @bbcradio2. If you missed Jimi Hendrix playing some Robert Burns - I’ll be lining it up tonight too ..

Check out Cerys Matthews playing a live version of Green Grow The Rashes performed by Michael Marra & McFalls Chamber, plus Auld Lang Syne by Jimi Hendrix, Ae Fond Kiss by Camera Obscura and Address to a Haggis by Hugh McDiarmid and Shabaka Hutchings. Happy Burns Nightx www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good morning music lovers! Saddle up your pony and come on a ride? #6music currently playing a terrific example of gospel singing new from Ron carter and Ricky Dillard new blue note..

T'other week (11 Jan) we had a lovely mention on @bbc6music.bsky.social @cerysmatthews.bsky.social programme. It was all about Hawks and Winterwatching.. our 'Hawk & Crow' had a lovely spin anyways. Still time to listen... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @concertedartists.bsky.social

Live Now via Zoom - ‘Tiger Brides: Memories of Love and War from the G.I. Brides of Tiger Bay’ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 zoom.us/j/9476419896...

H is for Hawk, a blockbuster movie based on Helen Macdonald’s memoir hits cinemas this month - and hawk-eyed viewers might recognise some of the Welsh locations used in the filming wp.me/p8Mk4U-1cAA

Really enjoying listening to Chris P..so much wisdom..any chance of a shout out for a Shrewsbury gig incoming..

Huge thanks to those showing interest & support after @cerysmatthews.bsky.social kind intervention on @bbc6music.bsky.social. She’s top, as you know, & I’d put money on her rating the book. It’s about the power of #music & how/why we need our Angels of #Protest now. #PowerChords #punk #books

Looking forward to this new series 👇 "BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, A People's History of Punk, Teenage Kicks" share.google/qVueW9JLvzYy... And really enjoying listening to Chris Packham chatting with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social now

Bloody Nora. Listening to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social wax beautifully & lyrically on #punk & #protest. Bro you *really need to read #PowerChords!! @cerysmatthews.bsky.social @bbc6music.bsky.social #music #books #philosophy #politics

Join me this morning to talk hawks with Claire Foy and Chris Packham on live at 10 am @bbc6music.bsky.social

#Blues #Music The Blues Show with @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Today 21:00 BBC Radio 2 Eric Bibb drops by the studio on his way to playing the January Blues Festival. Born in New York, Eric's blues career spans five decades, over 40 albums and 3 Grammy nominations! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Morning! We’re back live with some Orkney Ace of Spades… @bbcradio6musicbot.bsky.social

Happy new year all , thank you for the company xx

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... What an uplifting celebratory special @cerysmatthews.bsky.social! 🙏🏻 🎧

Marged Dafydd never married, providing an eighteenth-century Welsh example of a woman who managed to create for herself what Virginia Woolf would call ‘A Room of One’s Own’ ✍️Jerry Hunter

Nadolig Llawen ❤️🌍☀️

Actually, let's have a third song because every year I gush about how much I love @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Christmas album Baby, It's Cold Outside and this year is no different. If you're of a certain age the entire album is basically a school Christmas concert and it's glorious and utterly joyous

A Child's Christmas Archive on 4 Today 12:00 BBC Radio 4 From Susan Cooper to Dylan Thomas and Raymond Briggs to Judith Kerr, @cerysmatthews.bsky.social explores the ways writers have been inspired to write Christmas through the eyes of a child. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

How wonderful amidst #Christmas2025 preparations to hear another gem from the BBCArchive BBCRadio4. @cerysmatthews.bsky.social celebrates the place of the child in the experience of #Christmas, through memory, story & performance. Captivating. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Running round Magor listening to @cerysmatthews.bsky.social and reminiscing about the time she played Zorba the Greek and almost killed me as I sped up through the streets of Cardiff. And blow me, she did it again! Spot the red! 🤯🥵🏃🏻‍♂️😥 @bbc6music.bsky.social

'Snowdrift barn' by contemporary British painter Kate Evans #WomensArt ##December2nd #ArtAdvent 🎄

Hello there music lovers- we are live on @bbcradio2 right now if you fancy company.. some ace Maria Muldaur on now, and soon, Slash joins me to talk blues xx

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social in support of your tribute this morning!

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social also in support of your tribute today!