'The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.'

James Baldwin.

Drink and feed time for our Muscovy ducklings in our rescue centre #ducklings #muscovyduckling

14 years without my Dad today. Need him more than ever but more grateful than ever for the 29 years I did get. ❤️ British Dental Journal nature.com/articles/sj.bd…

I could use my lovely blue tick to go off on some thousand word diatribe about how beyond awful these low-lying scoundrels are, but instead I’ll just stick with: register to vote, make sure you have the right ID to vote, and vote.

Ce binoclard rassasié de littérature passe dans tous les médias pour nous dire combien le capital culturel dont il a hérité ne vaut rien. Menteur !

La lecture est une fenêtre inégalable sur le monde. Et non Slama junior, on ne laissera pas la vue aux seuls nantis, décale toi.

Love this pic of my Dad as a young showman building up on the fair. So much of his life and stories go into the Jericho books 🕵️‍♂️🎡

OTD in 1900 James Joyce wrote to translator William Archer, who had relayed Henrik Ibsen’s gratitude for his review of When We Dead Awaken: “I am a young Irishman, eighteen years old, and the words of Ibsen I shall keep in my heart all my life.”

Il y a 35 ans jour pour jour, Leïla, une jeune femme de 19 ans, mettait au monde un petit garçon, dans le secret, faute d’avoir pu être accompagnée et aimée comme elle l’aurait mérité.

Elle n’avait pas d’autre choix que de le confier à l’adoption en espérant qu’une famille…

Quel son extraordinaire pour tout amoureux de la littérature !

La voix est celle de Guillaume Apollinaire, blessé en 1916 durant la guerre quelques temps après avoir obtenu la nationalité française, blessure dont il ne se remettra jamais. Il mourut en 1918, achevé par la grippe…

Catherine Deneuve & Françoise Dorléac behind the scenes of Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, 1967

Loved working on these brilliant piano pieces by Will Eaves - do check them out!

The excellent pianist and composer Richard Uttley has recorded a suite of piano pieces by me, written to accompany an essay that will be published by TLS Books in the autumn. You can listen to them on SoundCloud
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Ce matin, au columbarium du Père-Lachaise, les urnes de la chanteuse et pianiste Jane Bathori et de sa compagne, la comédienne Andrée Tainsy.

Remembering #Messiaen , who passed away on this day in 1992. Dive deeper into his masterpiece for #piano , 'Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus,' with extensive booklet notes available here: mortenheide.dk/messiaen 🎹
#classicalmusic #VingtRegards

mortenheide.lnk.to/Messiaen

🐈 out 💨 the 💼. I’m writing a family history of Barbados for Chatto&Windus called ‘Not All of Me Will Die’. I am over the moon to be working with the excellent Clara Farmer. Forever grateful to James Pullen at the Wiley Agency for spurring me on! 🖊️
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A memorable day for Chris Butler and Ann Barkway who have been immersed in the dynamic world of BBC Radio 3 Broadcasting House. They have been recording two programmes for The Early Music Show, presented by Hannah French 👩🏻‍🦽, which will be broadcast on 5th and 12th May. 🎤📻📆

COMING TO AMERICA! 🩰 🇺🇸 🤘

Black Sabbath - The Ballet is going international! Check out the dates for the US and Europe now. Birmingham Royal Ballet Christopher Austin Sun Keting Wise Music Classical Berlin
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I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of Sir Andrew Davis. Truly the end of an era and a sad loss for music everywhere but especially here in the UK whose music he brought to life with such passion and honesty. RIP.

A wonderful, moving and humbling 🧵