A spellbinding new film of Curlew River, made during the 75th Aldeburgh Festival production at Blythburgh Church, will be broadcast on BBC Four at 7.45pm next Sunday, 17 November. More details are available here: bbc.in/4esnsz8

Lovely to remember Phyllis yesterday, and celebrate one of her finest novels, reissued this month Faber Books

This is starting to feel quite meta

The Ivor Novello Award for Best Choral Composition goes to Cassandra Miller for 'The City, Full of People' - a piece for mixed choir of 16 singers 🏆 The judges felt that Miller’s piece “radiates an ecstatic quality, exquisitely crafted with originality and sophistication,

Did you cover Rex Whistler? I've always enjoyed the portraits he included of her on book jackets, eg her book on Bath

Try not to stampede but I've just set myself up in the heavens, so to speak. I may even post something there soon. All I'll say is that I am not a social media innovator. So if I'm doing it...

I'm a PhD student at University of Oxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!

Just learnt a proverb used by the Jale (tribe in New Guinea isolated from foreign influences until 1961): "People whose face is known should not be eaten."

A few days ago Lawrence Hollom posted a preprint that solves a problem about posets informally known as the fishbone conjecture, which I am told was extremely central in the area. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.16844

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I enjoyed writing this. I hope it sparks with some readers. sothebys.com/en/articles/jo…

I am houred that RUSI is drawing attention to my idea that may move the needle away from perpetual conflict in the Middle East. As I teach my students re the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community, leadership and the alignment of interests can change the world.

Congratulations to our winners at last night's #ALCSAwards, which celebrated educational writing, literacy and creativity. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make the night so special.

Always a lovely celebratory event

Fantastic article

This journey continues at @Gallery54 with 'Land, Sea & Sky', an exhibition in London running from 17th May, showcasing works from veteran artists. . Art is for everyone. If you're looking for a safe creative space, you're always welcome here. . [email protected]

I really am leaving now. Find me on Bluesky (all 664 of you,).

Copyright law is not complicated at all. If you want to use an author's work you need to ask for permission. If you use it without permission you're breaking the law. It's so simple. It'll be incredibly difficult for us, and for other affected industries, to take on Meta, but

'A breathtaking conspectus of the 21st century, an exciting rags-to-riches adventure and a deeply moving story of male friendship ... I don’t know how Alex Starritt is going to top this one' Financial Times Read the full review of #DraytonandMackenzie: shorturl.at/BBpIT

Today is publication day of the Letters of T. S. Eliot, volume 10: 1942-1944. I sincerely hope the volume will be enjoyable & useful to all readers & scholars of Eliot.