Helen Ireland 💙
@Troyvisitor
Christian, music-lover, Classicist, retired Academic Support Librarian @Warwickuni. Encephalitis has hurt my family.
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03-03-2011 17:59:03
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Active April - Day 27: Find a fun exercise to do while waiting for the kettle to boil actionforhappiness.org/active-april #ActiveApril
I remember winters in Manchester, as I grew up there. Perhaps that’s why I also love daffodils! #GardenersWorld
Continuing our Photo Friday theme this month of coastal locations in Penwith, this quarter plate glass negative, c.1900, depicts the The Crowns section and Engine House at Botallack.
#PhotoFriday #Botallack #Penwith #ExploreYourArchive
Good morning from this weirdly angled spot! Join us BBC Radio 3 for The Ride of the Valkyries to start, Walton’s Spitfire Prelude & Fugue, Pavarotti sings Verdi’s La Donna e mobile & Robert Keane’s Tiger 🐅 Tango from his Save the Animals Suite in the Playlister. Happy Friday 📻
Charles Causley reading his poem “Eden Rock”, followed by Deep River - simply perfect. Thanks, Petroc Trelawny and BBC Radio 3.
Active April - Day 26: Take an extra break in your day and walk outside for 15 minutes actionforhappiness.org/active-april #ActiveApril
Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 A lost saxophone concerto found- by John Beach Cragun; Charles Causley visits Eden Rock; Tasmin Little teams up with Sir Andrew Davis to play the Coleridge Taylor Violin Concerto and violet flowers fill the meadows as Carl Orff welcomes spring.
Today on BBC Feedback: your questions about the new BBC Radio 3 schedules are put to Sam Jackson, and Andrea Catherwood marks the end of the The Now Show with Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt.
Listen at 3.30pm on BBC Radio 4, or catch up on BBC Sounds. 📢
Morning from the escalator! Join us BBC Radio 3 @ 9.30 for Dance of the Tumbler’s from Snow Maiden, Beethoven’s Spring Sonata, Albeniz’s The Magic Opal in the Playlister & Schubert’s Du bist die Ruh @ 10.30. Grab a ☕️ & join us 📻❤️
Active April - Day 25: Have a ‘no screens’ night and take time to recharge yourself actionforhappiness.org/active-april #ActiveApril
Morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. BBC Proms 2024 are launched today and director David Pickard joins us; Mary Lou Williams swings for joy; Lea Desandre sings Hahn; Stanford from The Sixteen and Tchaikovsky with Kirill Petrenko and Berliner Philharmoniker. Join us, on air until 0930.
If BBC Radio 3 listeners are lucky, Petroc Trelawny might play some of Tchaikovsky’s music on Breakfast on Friday morning, to remind us of this evening’s superb #ROHSwanLake .
Home after watching #ROHSwanLake at our local cinema. Stunning production, whole cast brilliant, superb music, costumes and set design. Thanks to Petroc Trelawny and Darcey Bussell for the skilful interviews and details about all the work involved. Wonderful evening!
Huge congratulations to Petroc Trelawny Hannah French 👩🏻🦽 kate molleson @bbcradio3 on winning the VLV Award for Best Audio Music & Arts programme for Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny, who wake up the UK every weekday with classical music to match the mood of the morning across the UK.