Humour, strong ideas and heart-breakingly lovely poetry - who can resist Matthew Sweet talking all things Black Country on Free Thinking with Dawinder Bansal FRSA Simon Briercliffe Liz Berry @EstherAsprey and Matt Stallard. Listen now BBC Sounds bbc.in/3BGHSmx

Our very own cellist Miriam Skinner has a series of Sounds Connected on BBC Radio 3 . 👏 📻 You can listen on BBC Sounds to the first episode: bbc.in/43VfjPC

Noisy kittiwakes under the Tyne Bridge, thanks to BBC Radio 3 listener James Bowyer for today’s Saturday Sound. Elizabeth Alker

What an absolute joy to introduce the MIGHTY Self Esteem onstage for her electric BBC Proms concert last night with Royal Northern Sinfonia & Robert Ames. Audiences in Gateshead really are the best…. Listen TOMORROW at 9:45pm BBC Radio 3 / BBC Sounds …..

Oscar-winning Rachel Portman is in conversation on the latest episode of Sound of Cinema. 📽 Tom McKinney explores Rachel’s best-loved scores, from Chocolat to The Duchess, all brought to life by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. 🎼✨

📻10pm tonight BBC Radio 3 for #WorldSoilDay South African Modernism 1880-2020 asks what the arts & humanities can do for the planet. With Jim Scown Camilla Allen, Barbara Paca Garden Museum & Jago Cooper Sainsbury Centre. Or listen to the podcast now 🎧➡️ rb.gy/43pwcp

Tonight at 11pm! Tune in to BBC Radio 3 to hear Róisín explore Irish classical music beginning in the nineteenth century. Listen live on at BBC Radio 3 this evening, or catch up on BBC Sounds. 📻 bbc.in/41P1z8t

Nice article in the Irish Examiner today.. BBC show pays tribute to Cork-based classical composers irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts…

Some real hidden gems coming up in Episode 2 of Irish Classical this evening. With stories of Cork, Bax & the Fleischmann family; Ina Boyle, Joan Trimble and many others. 11pm BBC Radio 3⁩ & available to listen back ⁦BBC Sounds⁩. Hope you enjoy it! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

‘Irish Classical’ has made pick of the week in the Observer (and apparently the Times last week!), so wow! Thank you all for listening and for the support and encouragement! One episode to go on BBC Radio 3 this Sunday, and everything available to listen to on BBC Sounds ❤️

Tonight at 10pm on BBC Radio 3, I'm joined by Clair Wills, Martin Doyle, Scott McKendry (Scott McKendry), and Louise Brangan for a BBC Free Thinking conversation about secrets, lies, and Irish history. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

I'll be on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking this evening at 10pm GMT, talking about the Prize Papers alongside Dr Anna McKay and @Lloyd_BeltonListen, produced by olive clancy. Find the programme in the link below! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A breezy day out on Salford Quays for Catherine Fletcher and maritime historians Oliver Finnegan, Lloyd Belton & Dr Anna McKay. Find out what they talked about on 📻BBC Radio 3 at 10pm. Hint: it might involve ships….and history

Poet Scott McKendry in the The Irish Times Ticket today, staples in all the right places: poetry, Belfast, language, "obsessed with the hyperlocal". Scott McKendry Arts Council of Northern Ireland Seamus Heaney Centre The Lifeboat Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Patrick Kavanagh Centre 2019 PoetryBookSoc Corsair Books Little, Brown UK

10pm tonight on 📻BBC Radio 3: John Gallagher with Dr Elise Watson @EvRaamsdonk & Adam Smyth Balliol English talking #bookhistory 📚#earlymodern 🧀jokes & Anglo/Dutch frenemies.

Early start via an almost complete (and very pleasing)cycle path from home to @factotyintl for WOW - Women of the World's #WOWGirlsFes8val speed mentoring event.

My episode of The Essay BBC Radio 3 : what were the Magdalene Laundries? And how do we begin to reconcile ourselves with this past? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… Arts and Humanities Research Council

If you missed it listen back on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Alternative Revolution is back tonight(5/8) on anchor.radio at 6pm. Music from Mondays Problem,@BERRIESBANDUK,slumclub, Half Happy, Midlight,The Ephades, The Black Isle, shesinparties CUSP, KITES, deary,moulditsmould(EP of the week)

Words and Music: Rescue at Sea; a programme honouring RNLI bicentenary was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this evening. With thanks to producer olive clancy for including Lough Derg RNLI helm Eleanor Hooker’s poem #FloatToLive, written to mark #RNLI200 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…