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Blue Circle - new short story by Charlotte Runcie 3.45pm Fri BBC Radio 4 Two days after the worst break-up of her life, a council registrar has to officiate a wedding. A wedding unlike any she's ever been to. Read by Bettrys Jones, produced Mair Bosworth bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Absolutely not to be missed this week. BBC Radio 4 spotlights Robert Macfarlane ambitious & passionate new book, which brings together many of his driving ideas with radical accounts—ancient & contemporary—of our natural environment & its myriad occupants bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Our Composer of the Week each day at 4pm BBC Radio 3 is Edward #Elgar. Donald Macleod explores five of Elgar’s greatest passions - beginning with England itself. Produced by alice mckee #Worcestershire #MalvernHills bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Thanks for wonderful #Elgar this week… The The Elgar Festival is coming later this month with fabulous concerts and venues AND Zeb Soanes in ‘Elgar for Everyone’ in Worcester Cathedral 28th May.

The Defectors -highly recommend this drama-doc BBC Sounds about the 2016 defection of #NorthKorea Deputy Ambassador Thae Yong-ho, set against real-life testimony from those who have fled. Presenter Paul French, drama by Al Smith, producer Sasha Yevtushenko bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

More than a one-hit wonder (though what a hit!) our Composer of the Week BBC Radio 3 is Max #Bruch, creator of the much-loved #violin concerto. But Bruch came to resent the very sound of it. Donald Macleod tells his story 4pm, produced by Amelia Parker bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Lorine Niedecker, born on this day in 1903

Your #UKARIAS winners for UK Radio Station or Radio Network of the Year supported by Arqiva: 🥇 @bbcradio3 🥈 BBC Radio 5 Live 🥉 Greatest Hits Radio

St Anne Teaching Her Daughter the Virgin Mary to Read [The Education of the Virgin] c. 1510 Attributed to the Master of Saint Benedict, Hildesheim. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

“Even if you have a lot of money in Gaza right now it doesn't matter," Abualouf says as it's impossible to find food to feed your family. "Gaza is at the edge of famine, I am talking to people every day, people are starving.”⁦Rushdi Abualouf⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1de…

The BBC World Service International Audio #Drama Competition - for writers outside the UK. Deadline Weds 4 June. Send us your #audiodrama scripts for a chance to hear your work broadcast BBC World Service #writingopportunities #playwriting Full details: bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

R.I.P. Charles Strouse. Your beautiful music lives on in our hearts, along with memories of your innate kindness and compassion.

Glad to catch the Tirzah Garwood exhibition, Beyond Ravilious Dulwich Picture Gallery in its last few days. Full of mystery, wit & claustrophobia. Two from the last year of her life- transforming herself & husband Henry into dolls & ‘Springtime of Flight’ 1950. dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…

Seven Fireflies in the Moonlight, by Shiokawa Bunrin, 19th century

Imagiste - poet Jean Sprackland explores the subversive beauty of the female #Imagist poets, such as HD and Amy Lowell. With Fiona Benson, Nisha Ramayya Richard Vytniorgu Melissa Bradshaw & Mona Arshi Readings by Fenella Woolgar BBC Radio 4 extra Sun 6pm #poetry bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Gielgud’s Letters - happy memories of recording these with the great Sir Derek Jacobi “James Mason still talks through his nose & Marlon looks as if he is searching for a baseball bat to beat his brains out with.” 8.30 1.30 7.30 all week BBC Radio 4 extra bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

This is the kind of plot twist I like… After years of plugging away, #Czech composer Leoš #Janáček finally found fame in his 60s. kate molleson explores his phenomenal late outpouring in Composer of the Week each day 4pm BBC Radio 3 Producer Amelia Parker bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A family affair….The curious case of #Beethoven and the toxic custody battle over his nephew, Karl, as told by Donald Macleod in Composer of the Week 4pm each weekday BBC Radio 3 Producer Luke Whitlock bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Giant of African literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o dies aged 87 bbc.in/4kgVU3C

So lucky to encounter the jaw-dropping beauty of Lewis & Harris in the Outer #Hebrides, land of larks, lambs, rainbows and dolphins.