Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher | Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England | Author of The Berliners
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New Year, new me… My debut novel is out now in paperback as THE BERLINERS (prev’sly Friedrichstrasse 19). Buy from your local bookshop or follow the links below. With huge thanks to @agent_luck @jocastahamilton & all at @johnmurrays #Berlin #TheBerliners hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-h…
Aberfan: Tip Number Seven. Produced by @MariaDavid99 & Andy Fry with sound design @BassettRobinson, narrated by @hfdaniel for @BBCSounds @BBCRadioWales #Aberfan60
bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p09z3…
'A haaaandbaaaag?' Roleplay looks at Oscar Wilde's redoubtable Lady Bracknell in the company of actors who've played the role: Sian Phillips, Gillian Bevan @GylesB1 & opera singer Henry Waddington. Producer @klockes 4pm @BBCRadio4 Tues 20 Oct or @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003335…
Viva Verdi! The latest Key Changes looks at the role of #Verdi’s music in Italian unification. In Composer of the Week, Kate Molleson explores the rebellious streak that took him from provincial obscurity to national hero. Each weekday 4pm @BBCRadio3 1/2 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032tb…
2/2 Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music. 1848: Composing a Country - Verdi, Wagner, Kinkel, Smetana, Dvorak with @GillianMoore10 & @KateWilliamsme bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032t1…
A Good Read 📚@RaymondAntrobus & @guygunaratne join @harriettsgilbert to recommend favourite books by Saou Ichikawa, Annie Ernaux & Rachel Kushner 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds Producer Sally Heaven bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00331n…
Briefly in Brussels and fell for this painting - The Money Counter by Willem de Vliet (Delft c.1625). Mostly because of his dirty nails.
Delighted for the brilliant team of Al Smith @Nadia_Molinari Sharon Hughes, Ben Hollands @ChrissyBotto Anneika Rose & Sade Malone - winners of @PRIXEUROPA for Single Audio Fiction for their powerful, provocative @BBCRadio4 drama, Candour. Listen here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002smz…
Smetana mans the barricades on the Charles Bridge in Prague during the 1848 uprising. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music. Composing a Country. With @GillianMoore10 & @KateWilliamsme Producer Megan Jones 1pm or find now @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032t1…
“Wide-ranging & category-defying poet of page, theatre & screen”. Delighted to see the much-missed Tony Harrison receive a blue plaque on his childhood home in Tempest Rd, Leeds, thanks to @LeedsCivicTrust
& @RichardBurgon The house of poets.org/poem/long-distance… & many more poems.
the isle is full of noises
Sounds & sweet airs, that give delight…
Roleplay explores Caliban from Shakespeare’s The Tempest with @KANI_ELDER @thistimcrouch Liz Kettle & Faizal Abdullah 4pm Tue @BBCRadio4 Producer @elizalomas Find whole series @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032s9…
Featuring excerpts from @BBCRadio3’s The Tempest starring Joseph Arkley as Caliban and Ian McDiarmid as Prospero. Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. Listen here @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011cm…
Our Composer of the Week is the Cuban-American Tania Léon. Kate Molleson talks to the composer, conductor and educator about her early influences, life and music. 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 Producer Luke Whitlock bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032fw…
A Good Read is back! Writers @andrea_wulf & Selina Brown join @HarriettSG to choose 3 books they love. From ethnography to male eating disorders to tough mothering. Also singing the praises of @readingagency 3pm Mon 12 Oct @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qn…
A trilogy of Celtic Christie starts @BBCRadio4 today 3pm with #AgathaChristie’s Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? a Welsh murder mystery rom-com. Dramatised @MirandaEmmerson & starring Matthew Aubrey & Rhianne Barreto (The Outlaws). Directed by @davidjohnnorton bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qv…
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Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music, Ep 27: A #Birmingham Oratorio with @GillianMoore10 & @KateWilliamsme 1pm Sat 10 Oct or listen now @BBCSounds @TheCBSO @BM_AG @bbcwm @birmingham_live @BMusic_Ltd @BhamCityCouncil @BRB @BCMG bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032hb…
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#WFH catching up with Composer of the Week on @BBCRadio3 presented by @DonaldMacleod01 - The Venetian School, with music by Giovanni and his nephew Andrea Gabrielli, Donato and Croce: glory days of music in Venice after the 1576 plague. Unmissable!
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00322…
The bears must go. The marvellous @janehorrocks_ reads ‘One Bear From Happiness’ - an original short story by @RocheJacques written for @BBCRadio4 Producer Beth O’Dea 1545 Fri 9 Oct bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032fl…
