My daughter had ballet lessons at the McAlpine Dance School for many years. Arriving to pick her up early often meant a chat with with the lovely Donald McAlpine. A life very well lived, recounted here by his daughter McAlpine Dance in today's Guardian.

Anxiety? Auden? Get in the cocktails.🍸🍸🍸

#JulianBleach stars as Auden in #TheAgeOfAnxiety BBC Radio 3 today at 7.30pm bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

If you love Auden you’ll like this bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Iris Murdoch feels no anxiety about proving that she “gets it.” slate.com/culture/2022/0… via @slate

❤️💕 “Rosetta 🌹at the Microphone 🎙”

Job interview, 2013. Interviewer: So, John, where do you see yourself in ten years time? Me, locking eyes with them: I will consider my life a miserable failure if, by then, I am not being paid to stand in a room in Soho making a noise like Moomintroll fighting off an octopus.

I happened to catch BBC Radio 4 's retelling of Jan Morris' transition on my drive home - thoughtful, poetic and strangely uplifting - a highly recommended listen! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Something different for Sunday listening, on BBC Radio 4, @ 3pm, Quartered Safe Out Here, a dramatisation of George MacDonald Fraser's book about the fighting in Burma. Goes along well with the The Forgotten War Podcast: Burma Campaign WW2 & WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk at the moment. My copy from Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 Tks. #Burma

Jack Bowsher - Thunder Run: Meiktila 1945 The Forgotten War Podcast: Burma Campaign WW2 WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk BBC Radio 4 Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 James Holland Here is the link to Quartered Safe Out Here, great find! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Salacious Secrets in Southwold ~ A Shocking Sordid Seaside Thriller ~ by Robin Brooks From the same team that produced the notorious ‘Death in Southwold,’ the infamous ‘No Sex in Southwold,’ and the totally reprehensible ‘Sex and Death in Southwold.’ 21st - 26th September

Salacious Secrets in Southwold ~ A Shocking Sordid Seaside Thriller ~ by Robin Brooks 21st ~ 26th September NOT TO BE MISSED!!

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🥁 👏🏼 Thankyou, Samuel! James Anthony Rose was certainly wonderful James Blades on Sat night to a full house at Britten Pears Arts Britten Studio. We're hoping to do it again.

Don’t miss this! Irrepressibly brilliant percussionist James Blades celebrated in an innovative project broadcast in this week’s Sunday Feature: ‘Pandemonium of the One-Man Band’… BBC Radio 3⁩ 1915 23rd Nov. theguardian.com/music/2025/nov…

theguardian.com/music/2025/nov… The caption on the Picture should read 'Was James Blades the greatest percussionist...' (mistake rectified online by @Guardian this morning but not this link on X for some reason...

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3pm TODAY on BBC Radio 4 extra From 2002, Drama 📻 “Love and Freindship” Jane Austen’s 1790 novel📖 dramatised by Robin Brooks 🌟 Victoria Hamilton, David Tennant, Jasper Britton, Ruth Platt, David Horovitch, Janet Jefferies, Sarah Eedle, Lara Haworth bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…