I'm going to be releasing the Dandelion Adventure session we recorded for John Peel in 1990 on vinyl. These tracks were written especially for the session and never previously released.
Only 200 copies are being pressed up and I will have pre-sale details at the end of the week.

Frank and Nadia are mightily pleased with the snacks, and the books Rob leaves behind to add to their reading pile, while Emily Drabble of BookTrust offers the best new books from the May bookshelves, including...

Mayday, mayday🚨🚨 It's new-Island-of-Brilliant day! We've got that legendary cove Rob Biddulph floating into our coves, with yarns galore about his amazing, world-record-breaking career, keeping Nadia Shireen and Frank Cottrell-Boyce positively agog. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Manchester folks. I need yr help on Tuesday 23 April

I’m playing at the Peer Hat. they thought that I was promoting the show. Instead of cancelling, I’m definitely gonna play. I’ll be doing the door myself!

Doors 7pm
Bhajan Bhoy 08.30pm
Cost £5

come to the show.

Very exciting rumblings on the island, we're hoisting anchor (yes I have an anchor) and drifting to shore for two live shows! First up is Brighton with the legend that is Julia Donaldson on Sunday 19th May: brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xww-t…

Then on 13th July we're at the truly amazing, civil-war-pocked Biddulph Old Hall in Staffordshire with super special guest Steven Lenton and our in-house/on-island band the Ukelele Uff Trio. Or the Uff Ukelele Quartet as Frank calls them. outsidearts.org/events/the-fes…

Enjoying listening to this today 🎧
The Island of Brilliant
Nadia Shireen
Frank Cottrell-Boyce

Evening stroll soundtrack: beautiful close reading of a great John Donne poem. Well worth hearing. ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ ⁦BBC Sounds⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Only the #BBC does this: “And yet no greater, but more eminent, Love by the spring is grown ;
As in the firmament
Stars by the sun are not enlarged, but shown, Gentle love deeds, as blossoms on a bough, From love's awakened root do bud out now.”

this is not an April fools!!

I was so happy to be on the The Island of Brilliant , with my shark companion.

talking all about Keedie!

give it a listen, and make sure to play the many other incredible episodes, too!!

What's your favourite audio book? Nadia Shireen and Frank Cottrell-Boyce put their champions into battle on the island this month - Martin Jarvis with his William and Alan Bennett with his Willows. Surely nothing and nobody can top either of those gold-carat champs?

The best thing about the first of any month is a new episode of ⁦The Island of Brilliant⁩ and this one has ⁦Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚⁩ Thank you ⁦Frank Cottrell-Boyce⁩ ⁦Nadia Shireen⁩ ⁦geoff bird⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Elle McNicoll came to see us!! That's Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 to you, for she is literary royalty and has a fine eye for a snack, too. She talks all about her new book, 'Keedie', and the odd experience of writing it while filming its forerunner 'A Kind of Spark'. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

A lovely podcast about children’s books, hosted by two marvellous hosts 👍👇

I won!

Well now here's a thing - our shenanigans have inspired a festival, coming soon to a grand old hall near you (if you happen to live near Staffordshire): outsidearts.org/events/the-fes…