Emma Harding
@emmaharding.bsky.social
Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
Fanfare for an uncommon man: Aaron Copland is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 🎶Today, Donald Macleod traces #Copland’s roots and his first steps in music. Each weekday 4pm @BBCSounds Producer Ellie Ajao #AmericanMusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
January 5, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Fanfare for an uncommon man: Aaron Copland is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 🎶Today, Donald Macleod traces #Copland’s roots and his first steps in music. Each weekday 4pm @BBCSounds Producer Ellie Ajao #AmericanMusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Soul Music is marking 25 years @BBCRadio4 so for this latest series, we’ve set ourselves the challenge of focusing on tracks from the last 25 years. Today - Porcelain by #Moby & its place in people’s hearts. Producer Maggie Ayre 10.30am or @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Porcelain by Moby
The ethereal sound of Moby's massive hit from 2000.
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January 3, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Soul Music is marking 25 years @BBCRadio4 so for this latest series, we’ve set ourselves the challenge of focusing on tracks from the last 25 years. Today - Porcelain by #Moby & its place in people’s hearts. Producer Maggie Ayre 10.30am or @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Niche research question... but I'm hoping that a medievalist/ fairytale specialist might be able to help. I read a reference to a French (?) tale in which Noah sends out a dove from the Ark, but it returns a kingfisher. But I can't find any sources. Any leads gratefully received!
January 2, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Niche research question... but I'm hoping that a medievalist/ fairytale specialist might be able to help. I read a reference to a French (?) tale in which Noah sends out a dove from the Ark, but it returns a kingfisher. But I can't find any sources. Any leads gratefully received!
Good night, brave friends.
So may beginnings always follow ends.
Though time is treasonable, may we stand
Gathered each year, a stubborn-hearted band
Whose gaiety rises like a litany
Under the dying ornamental tree.
New Year Morning - Adrienne Rich (1952)
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So may beginnings always follow ends.
Though time is treasonable, may we stand
Gathered each year, a stubborn-hearted band
Whose gaiety rises like a litany
Under the dying ornamental tree.
New Year Morning - Adrienne Rich (1952)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...
December 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Good night, brave friends.
So may beginnings always follow ends.
Though time is treasonable, may we stand
Gathered each year, a stubborn-hearted band
Whose gaiety rises like a litany
Under the dying ornamental tree.
New Year Morning - Adrienne Rich (1952)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...
So may beginnings always follow ends.
Though time is treasonable, may we stand
Gathered each year, a stubborn-hearted band
Whose gaiety rises like a litany
Under the dying ornamental tree.
New Year Morning - Adrienne Rich (1952)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...
All I want for Twixtmas is… Ronald Binge, Eric Coates, Madeleine Dring, Ketèlbey, Bath, Farnon, & Tomlinson - Icons of British Light Music, Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 & @BBCSounds with Donald Macleod. Producer Chris Taylor #lightmusic🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pv1g
December 29, 2025 at 8:52 AM
All I want for Twixtmas is… Ronald Binge, Eric Coates, Madeleine Dring, Ketèlbey, Bath, Farnon, & Tomlinson - Icons of British Light Music, Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 & @BBCSounds with Donald Macleod. Producer Chris Taylor #lightmusic🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pv1g
A joy to bring #TSEliot’s 1935 drama Murder in the Cathedral to life with an incredible team. Danny Sapani stars as #ThomasBecket murdered @cburycathedral.bsky.social on 29 Dec 1170. Music by Joseph Howard performed by BBC Singers. 3pm Sat 27 Dec @BBCRadio4👇https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nv7c
December 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
A joy to bring #TSEliot’s 1935 drama Murder in the Cathedral to life with an incredible team. Danny Sapani stars as #ThomasBecket murdered @cburycathedral.bsky.social on 29 Dec 1170. Music by Joseph Howard performed by BBC Singers. 3pm Sat 27 Dec @BBCRadio4👇https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nv7c
Winterreisen - three new stories about winter journeys, inspired by #Schubert, by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @jolloyds.bsky.social and Mark Haddon. Read by Siân Thomas, Morfydd Clark & Lydia Wilson. Produced by Fay Lomas and me. 21.45 22-24 Dec @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Winterreisen - three new stories about winter journeys, inspired by #Schubert, by @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @jolloyds.bsky.social and Mark Haddon. Read by Siân Thomas, Morfydd Clark & Lydia Wilson. Produced by Fay Lomas and me. 21.45 22-24 Dec @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
It's A Georgian Christmas on Composer of the Week at 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod visits the home of #JaneAusten with historian Amanda Vickery to explore some of the seasonal customs & music of late-Georgian Britain. Producer Chris Taylor. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It's A Georgian Christmas on Composer of the Week at 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod visits the home of #JaneAusten with historian Amanda Vickery to explore some of the seasonal customs & music of late-Georgian Britain. Producer Chris Taylor. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A Flame
God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little pride – before
our age ends.
Give us astonishment
and a flame, high, bright.
- Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh #wintersolstice #poetry
God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little pride – before
our age ends.
Give us astonishment
and a flame, high, bright.
- Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh #wintersolstice #poetry
December 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A Flame
God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little pride – before
our age ends.
Give us astonishment
and a flame, high, bright.
- Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh #wintersolstice #poetry
God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little pride – before
our age ends.
Give us astonishment
and a flame, high, bright.
- Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh #wintersolstice #poetry
“More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.” (Elizabeth Bishop). Loved the Secret Maps exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social On until 18 Jan.
Last picture by chronicler & spy John Hardyng - a 1457 map of Scotland, drawn to encourage Henry VI of England to invade.
Last picture by chronicler & spy John Hardyng - a 1457 map of Scotland, drawn to encourage Henry VI of England to invade.
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
“More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.” (Elizabeth Bishop). Loved the Secret Maps exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social On until 18 Jan.
Last picture by chronicler & spy John Hardyng - a 1457 map of Scotland, drawn to encourage Henry VI of England to invade.
Last picture by chronicler & spy John Hardyng - a 1457 map of Scotland, drawn to encourage Henry VI of England to invade.
Accompanying Austen @BBCRadio3 21.45 Mon-Fri The Essay - Antonia Quirke speaks to composers who've scored original music for #JaneAusten adaptations about their musical choices and also about the music Austen enjoyed. Today, Adrian Johnston. Producer Camellia Sinclair.
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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Accompanying Austen, Adrian Johnston on Becoming Jane
Adrian Johnston talks to Antonia Quirke about composing the score for Becoming Jane.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Accompanying Austen @BBCRadio3 21.45 Mon-Fri The Essay - Antonia Quirke speaks to composers who've scored original music for #JaneAusten adaptations about their musical choices and also about the music Austen enjoyed. Today, Adrian Johnston. Producer Camellia Sinclair.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Prokofiev the storyteller is the theme of our Composer of the Week each day at 4pm @BBCRadio3 with Kate Molleson. Expect some festive Troika, Peter and the Wolf, winter bonfires & Cinderella. Producer Ellie Ajao. Also available @BBCSounds #Prokofiev www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Prokofiev the storyteller is the theme of our Composer of the Week each day at 4pm @BBCRadio3 with Kate Molleson. Expect some festive Troika, Peter and the Wolf, winter bonfires & Cinderella. Producer Ellie Ajao. Also available @BBCSounds #Prokofiev www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
When I Met Jane Austen: each day this week 11.45 & 13.45 @BBCRadio4
250 years after the birth of #JaneAusten, ten writers & thinkers discuss her work, wit & influence - incl @realbaddiel.bsky.social & @valmcdermid.bsky.social in conversation with Paula Byrne www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
250 years after the birth of #JaneAusten, ten writers & thinkers discuss her work, wit & influence - incl @realbaddiel.bsky.social & @valmcdermid.bsky.social in conversation with Paula Byrne www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, When I Met Jane Austen, David Baddiel on the invention of the modern novel
Writers and thinkers tell Dr Paula Byrne when they met Jane Austen. First, David Baddiel.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
When I Met Jane Austen: each day this week 11.45 & 13.45 @BBCRadio4
250 years after the birth of #JaneAusten, ten writers & thinkers discuss her work, wit & influence - incl @realbaddiel.bsky.social & @valmcdermid.bsky.social in conversation with Paula Byrne www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
250 years after the birth of #JaneAusten, ten writers & thinkers discuss her work, wit & influence - incl @realbaddiel.bsky.social & @valmcdermid.bsky.social in conversation with Paula Byrne www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;
The sun is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;
The world's whole sap is sunk;
#JohnDonne #otd #StLucysDay 13 Dec
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44122/...
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;
The sun is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;
The world's whole sap is sunk;
#JohnDonne #otd #StLucysDay 13 Dec
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44122/...
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's,
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;
The sun is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;
The world's whole sap is sunk;
#JohnDonne #otd #StLucysDay 13 Dec
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44122/...
Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks;
The sun is spent, and now his flasks
Send forth light squibs, no constant rays;
The world's whole sap is sunk;
#JohnDonne #otd #StLucysDay 13 Dec
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44122/...
“not every one has your passion for dead leaves, Marianne” - Sense & Sensibility dramatised by Claudine Toutoungi @BBCSounds @BBCRadio4 1515 Sat 20 Dec with Tamsin Greig, Madeleine Mantock, Rose Basista & Ben Hardy. Directed by Anne Isger #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Sense and Sensibility, Part 1
Austen’s tale of two sisters with wildly different hearts. Starring Tamsin Greig.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
“not every one has your passion for dead leaves, Marianne” - Sense & Sensibility dramatised by Claudine Toutoungi @BBCSounds @BBCRadio4 1515 Sat 20 Dec with Tamsin Greig, Madeleine Mantock, Rose Basista & Ben Hardy. Directed by Anne Isger #JaneAusten250 #JaneAusten www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
An embarrassment of Jane Austen riches @BBCRadio4 & @BBCRadio3 over the next few weeks for #JaneAusten250 And @BBCSounds a new, unabridged reading of Persuasion by the wonderful Jasmine Hyde. Produced by Fay Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - Persuasion - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Persuasion on BBC Sounds.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
An embarrassment of Jane Austen riches @BBCRadio4 & @BBCRadio3 over the next few weeks for #JaneAusten250 And @BBCSounds a new, unabridged reading of Persuasion by the wonderful Jasmine Hyde. Produced by Fay Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
Emily Dickinson’s birthday (10 Dec 1830), so…
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Emily Dickinson’s birthday (10 Dec 1830), so…
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
There's a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons –
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes –
The Poetry Detective with Vanessa Kisuule is back 4pm today @BBCRadio4 looking for poems that can help us think through the things we wrestle with. Today: Doomscrolling. With help from @carolinebirduk.bsky.social among others. Producer Ellie Richold www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Poetry Detective, Doomscrolling
Vanessa Kisuule unearths poems that offer us insight into the issues that ail us most.
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December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Poetry Detective with Vanessa Kisuule is back 4pm today @BBCRadio4 looking for poems that can help us think through the things we wrestle with. Today: Doomscrolling. With help from @carolinebirduk.bsky.social among others. Producer Ellie Richold www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Take up your hurdy gurdy & join us for A Medieval Christmas all week at 4pm Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 William Lyons is Donald Macleod’s guest, exploring Christmas traditions lost, changed & familiar through glorious music. Producer Chris Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Take up your hurdy gurdy & join us for A Medieval Christmas all week at 4pm Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 William Lyons is Donald Macleod’s guest, exploring Christmas traditions lost, changed & familiar through glorious music. Producer Chris Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Witches, wilderness & wit. A trio of classics on A Good Read today. Poet Gwyneth Lewis & author @annabelabbs.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social with books by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nan Shepherd & #JaneAusten. 3pm Mon 8 Dec @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Gwyneth Lewis and Annabel Abbs
Poet Gwyneth Lewis and author Annabel Abbs join Harriett to talk favourite books.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Witches, wilderness & wit. A trio of classics on A Good Read today. Poet Gwyneth Lewis & author @annabelabbs.bsky.social join @harriettsg.bsky.social with books by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Nan Shepherd & #JaneAusten. 3pm Mon 8 Dec @BBCRadio4 Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Reposted by Emma Harding
Celebrate St. Nicholas Day with one of my favourite @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social paintings, St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm [Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452)]
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Celebrate St. Nicholas Day with one of my favourite @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social paintings, St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm [Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452)]
The Bomb: This is a gripping, illuminating & beautifully made new series on the Cuban Missile Crisis. A personal & political history presented by relatives of the protagonists, Max Kennedy & Nina Khruscheva. Produced by Megan Jones, editor Chris Ledgard. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - The Bomb, Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1. Opening moves
As the USA and Soviet Union race for supremacy, Premier Khrushchev sizes up JFK
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December 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The Bomb: This is a gripping, illuminating & beautifully made new series on the Cuban Missile Crisis. A personal & political history presented by relatives of the protagonists, Max Kennedy & Nina Khruscheva. Produced by Megan Jones, editor Chris Ledgard. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The interior design master, Michelle Ogundehin & novelist Lisa St Aubin de Terán join @harriettsg.bsky.social to discuss some of their favourite #books. Lisa's choice is Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix which... 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n06h
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The interior design master, Michelle Ogundehin & novelist Lisa St Aubin de Terán join @harriettsg.bsky.social to discuss some of their favourite #books. Lisa's choice is Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix which... 🧵https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n06h
The extraordinary John Rutter is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 each weekday 4pm. Donald Macleod visits him at his Cambridgeshire home to discuss the twists & turns of his career, in this, his 80th birthday year. Producer Amelia Parker @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The extraordinary John Rutter is our Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 each weekday 4pm. Donald Macleod visits him at his Cambridgeshire home to discuss the twists & turns of his career, in this, his 80th birthday year. Producer Amelia Parker @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Ode Written on the First of December - Robert Southey
The green moss shines with icey glare,
The long grass bends its spear-like form…
Reflection too may love the hour
When Nature, hid in Winter's grave,
No more expands the bursting bud
Or bids the flowret bloom.
The green moss shines with icey glare,
The long grass bends its spear-like form…
Reflection too may love the hour
When Nature, hid in Winter's grave,
No more expands the bursting bud
Or bids the flowret bloom.
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Ode Written on the First of December - Robert Southey
The green moss shines with icey glare,
The long grass bends its spear-like form…
Reflection too may love the hour
When Nature, hid in Winter's grave,
No more expands the bursting bud
Or bids the flowret bloom.
The green moss shines with icey glare,
The long grass bends its spear-like form…
Reflection too may love the hour
When Nature, hid in Winter's grave,
No more expands the bursting bud
Or bids the flowret bloom.