Now live! Big Give #Christmaschallenge and to get things started I’ll donate £1 to @FrazzledCafe for every retweet between now and the end of the day! Thank you for your support everybody!! 👍

Haven’t read a children’s book in years but loved this new fabulous subversive story with the fine moral All kids need….. ‘when it all goes titsup, dance’. Sarah Tagholm

Join emma freud 💙 🔴 for R4 Pick of the Week. We’ve amazing audio from Marianna Spring jon ronson @laurenlaverne Chi Chi Izundu Ellie Taylor Jumoké Eddie Kadi Andrew Leland Chris McCausland 📖 "Keep Laughing" OUT NOW! Geoff Norcott Sikisa Comedy Andy Parsons Alasdair Beckett-King Andy Zaltzman bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

21 universities, led by Cambridge University & managing over £5bn, have announced they are looking for a fossil free bank.​ ​ This comes after Leeds uni said they would dump Barclays UK over the bank's ties with the fossil fuel industry 🔥​ ​ ft.com/content/6c1dd9…

This year for Comic Relief my cat Badger is attempting to set a world record for the longest continual purr. He is the laziest cat in the UK, does NOTHING but eat and sleep, but purring is his forte. Please sponsor him. He needs a purpose #rednoseday justgiving.com/fundraising/rn…

My brilliant friends at Cook For Good are publishing a gorgeous SOUP cookbook to help tackle food poverty in a housing estate in Kings Cross. And thanks to some remarkable match funding, if you buy a book for £25, they get £125. cookforgood.uk/crowdfunder

#LooseEnds Sat 18:15 BBC Radio 4 At Latitude Festival, Gareth Malone OBE, Damian Lewis, Elf Lyons and Rachel Ramsay join Clive Anderson and emma freud 💙 🔴 with music by Esme Emerson and Gia Ford. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

So Sky Arts Awards are asking the country to vote for the single Greatest British Art Masterpiece - and asked me to nominate the Greatest British Film... it was OBVIOUSLY this one.... thetimes.com/culture/art/ar…

It’s launch day for The Archers Podcast so please forgive me for getting a bit excited and sharing a detail of last night’s Archers on Radio 4’s Today this morning. Our first episode drops this evening on BBC Sounds - I’m joined by Emma Grundy (Emerald O’Hanrahan), Tracey

The second episode of The Archers Podcast: biscuits, Apple Day, false teeth and kissing on the radio. Huge thanks to @SusieRids and Annabelle Dowler (Best saved til Sunday if you are an Omnibus listener) bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

This week's The Archers Podcast with emma freud 💙 🔴 features Sgt Harrison Burns meeting his real-life counterparts: the police officers who helped shaped George's fate. Plus the mystery of the missing bunting .... bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j…

oh this is definitely worth a bid... it's the shooting script - is filled with richard's notes, and still has all the scenes that ended up being cut. Also - it's to raise funds for Theirworld which is one of the most effective non-profit organisations I know.

On this week's The Archers Podcast with emma freud 💙 🔴 , Tom and Natasha Archer (aka Mali Harries and William Troughton) plus young farmer Maria Warne. Oh, and theme tunes ..you know you love them ... bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

The Queen of Ambridge Christmas, Lynda Snell, joins us on The Archers Podcast with emma freud 💙 🔴 Huge thanks to Carole Boyd, Julie Beckett and Canon Sandra Millar for this seasonal episode. (And yes, I really was wearing a Christmas Tree hat) bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j…

A bumper New Year edition of The Archers Podcast with emma freud 💙 🔴 full of delicious archive and insight from Tim Bentinck (David Archer) and Angela Barnes bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p…

For anyone who struggles

This week on The Archers Podcast with emma freud 💙 🔴 Claudia Hammond assesses Ambridge's mental health, Rob Drummond on Archers accents and the lowdown on Leonard from Paul Copley bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

As Rochelle wreaks havoc in Ambridge, emma freud 💙 🔴 talks to Jackie Lye who plays Joy Horville. Tina Ritchie talks mothers and daughters in The Archers and James Webb from Cornwall Wildlife Trust on their real-life beaver project. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0k…

We talked about beavers…

LISTEN! another chance to hear emma freud 💙 🔴 and @RevRichardColes talk about their amazing friendship - food, drugs, bad behaviour in car parks and the occasional dachshund. Catch Richard at Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday. pod.fo/e/30c1af