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Dr Kate Kennedy
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Research Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. @ox.ac.uk

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✨🎶 Starting TONIGHT and all this week on #BBCRadio3 🎶✨

This week Mon–Fri at 21:45, I’m broadcasting a special five-part series from the collections of the #MuseumofMusicHistory.

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Stories from the Museum of Music History - Episode guide
All episodes of Stories from the Museum of Music History
www.bbc.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by Dr Kate Kennedy
Join OCLW's life-writing class to learn craft and form in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams.
📆Mondays in term time | 11am
📍Wolfson College + Online
Open to all
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January 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Sir Stephen Hough was rather taken with the digitorium, a bit less frightening than the dactylium, which is half village stocks, half finger trap. Nightmare. What ARE we up to?! All will be revealed on BBC Radio 3, week beginning 19 Jan. #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory #VictorianCuriosities
December 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Sir Stephen Hough doesn’t really need his fingers, does he?! Having fun torturing him with eccentric and deservedly forgotten finger strengthening contraptions from the C19th. They didn’t do #Schumann much good, perhaps Stephen will do better? #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory
December 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
There are few things more Christmassy than a Messiah 🎄🎶 — and Wild Arts’ semi-staged (#TomMorris) memorised Messiah is on another level for storytelling and audience engagement.


At @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social it was a triumph 👏✨ Catch it at Chichester or Chelmsford if you can!
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December 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
‘Non-fiction can’t do justice to the times we’re in’ — Olivia Laing on her novel The Silver Book at @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social lecture last night ✨📚🎤

#OliviaLaing #TheSilverBook #Oxford #OxfordCentreForLifeWriting #AuthorTalk #WritersOfInstagram #BookLovers
December 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Delighted to share @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social selected my book as one of their #BooksoftheYear2025! Need a Christmas present?!

Thank you to Tony Curtis who discovered it via @lrb.co.uk.

Read here:
thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...

#Books #WritersOfBluesky #Cello 🎻📚✨ #Christmas2025
Books of the Year 2025 / Part One
Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Two follows next week.
thelonelycrowd.org
December 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Thrilled to announce the launch of a new baroque ensemble: Guerrero Baroque Collective! 🎶✨

Come hear us on:
📅 Saturday 6 December
🕢 19:30
⛪ Catholic Church of Saint James, London

Ft. Ana Beard Fernández and friends from Southwell Consort.

🎫 Book tickets:
www.guerrerobaroquecollective.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Treacherous black rocks at The Lizard in #Cornwall, where Ethel Smyth found inspiration for her Cornish gothic #opera The Wreckers! ⚫🌊⛅🎶

Not sure whether #EthelSmyth also indulged in local food, but thought I’d go the whole Cornish hog!

@southwestcoastpath.bsky.social @royaloperahouse.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The @suttonhoo.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk lyre — an imaginative reconstruction from the fragments of the #AngloSaxon original discovered in the burial mound 🪕

The last time a lyre was heard here, it was before the #Vikings… and they probably didn’t play Oh When The Saints Come Marching In 😅🎶
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
At Hatchlands Park @nationaltrust.org.uk with the OAE’s keyboard specialist Stephen Devine, revelling in a wealth of historic instruments 🎹✨ But I’m here to explore #Napoleon ’s piano — his wedding gift to his teenage bride, who sobbed in her carriage all the way from Vienna 🎼💔

#NationalTrust
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🎆 Fireworks on the weekend at BBC Radio 3's Record Review!

Explosive playing from my choices of Sinfonia of London, @thehalle.bsky.social, and super-cellist Gautier Capucon 🎻✨ Expect resurrection, celebration, and more!

📻 Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#Radio3 #RecordReview
BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Gershwin's 'An American in Paris' in Building a Library with Ben Gernon and Andrew McGregor
Ben Gernon chooses his favourite recording of Gershwin's 'An American in Paris'.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Reposted by Dr Kate Kennedy
Lovely record track choices on Record Review, @drkkennedy.bsky.social with Andrew McGregor, #BBCradio3
"Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound" by Dr Kate Kennedy, Head of Zeus.

I'm not reading the reviews until I finish this wonderful journey into the cello - personal to Kennedy and the 4 cellists whose lives she actually charts.

#Cello #Biography
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you haven’t yet tuned in… podcast available via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧 with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social!

👉 Listen, follow, rate, review now: podfollow.com/historyffs

#HistoryFFS #MusicAndMemory #HistoryPodcast #WWII #CulturalHeritage #Cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Reposted by Dr Kate Kennedy
From the conclusion of this year’s ‘On Life-Writing’ series: @drkkennedy.bsky.social and Hermione Lee answered the enduring question facing biographers— ‘How Close is Too Close?’.
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Reposted by Dr Kate Kennedy
Thrilled by these amazing reviews just days after our triple-episode launch ❤️

Thank you @drkkennedy.bsky.social, Louisa Rogers & @nickhewitt4.bsky.social! Next episode drops 28 October.

podfollow.com/historyffs

We’d love to hear what you think!

#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #NewPodcast #ListenNow
October 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Had a wonderful conversation with Sarah Dowd on @historyffs.bsky.social! - exploring music, memory, and the missing cello that connects generations. 🎻

Out now via website, Spotify, Apple Music! 🎧

👉 Listen, follow, rate, review: podfollow.com/historyffs

#HistoryFFS #HistoryPodcast #Cello
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reposted by Dr Kate Kennedy
Couldn’t imagine a better way to start the series. Thank you, Kate, for such a beautiful discussion about sound, silence, and remembrance - it set the tone perfectly for HistoryFFS.
October 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Dr Kate Kennedy
Great new #History podcast coming next week “History For F***'s Sake”

@historyffs.bsky.social

Episode 1: with the fabulous Kate Kennedy @drkkennedy.bsky.social

#History
#BritishHistory
#skystorians #academicsky
#historyeducation
#podcast

youtube.com/shorts/2bdtG...
History For F***'s Sake Episode 1: Kate Kennedy
YouTube video by HistoryFFS
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October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🚨🎙️ Episode 1 streaming next Tuesday 21 October 2025 ✨Excited to be opening the brand new @historyffs.bsky.social podcast series!

Be the first to listen 👉 historyffs.com Also available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

#HistoryFFS #Podcast #Cello #MusicHistory @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🎶📚 FREE EVENT @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎶📚

Join me & @elliechan.bsky.social for 'Music, life-writing & how to write about what you can’t hear.'

📅 15 Oct | 🕔 5–6pm | 📍 Goldsmiths (Richard Hoggart Building)


More info 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

@goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
✨ Here's the front-page review of Cello by Thomas Laqueur in this week’s @lrb.co.uk! 🎻

👉 Full review here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📖 Only £10.11 on Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Cello-Journe...

#Cello @headofzeus.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:34 AM
📻 This Sunday 12 October at 19:30 📻

Tune in and listen to the re-release of my BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, ‘The Cello and the Nightingale’, and hear why Beatrice Harrison’s famous recording made history. 🎶

👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#BBCRadio3 #radio3 #cello @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, The Cello and the Nightingale
Kate Kennedy examines the events surrounding one of the BBC's first outside broadcasts.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
👏 Well played – the Brahms and that lovely cello tune in the #Haydn slow movement sounded great! 🎶

A triumphant concert Saturday night for #Oxford Sinfonia at University Church Oxford, brilliantly conducted by Dexter Drown 👏🍷 A well-earned drink afterwards!

#ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #Cello
September 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM