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/
I confess I knew nothing of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) music until producer Luke Whitlock suggested her. But then I went down an #Andrée rabbit hole - and what riches! Join Donald Macleod for Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I confess I knew nothing of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) music until producer Luke Whitlock suggested her. But then I went down an #Andrée rabbit hole - and what riches! Join Donald Macleod for Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The Other Haydn. Our Composer of the Week is Michael Haydn, the often overlooked younger brother of Joseph. Donald Macleod explores his music and his life in Vienna & Salzburg. Producer Chris Taylor. 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
November 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Other Haydn. Our Composer of the Week is Michael Haydn, the often overlooked younger brother of Joseph. Donald Macleod explores his music and his life in Vienna & Salzburg. Producer Chris Taylor. 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
And the soul creeps out of the tree…
All Hallows, Louise Glück #halloween
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49605/...
All Hallows, Louise Glück #halloween
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49605/...
October 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
And the soul creeps out of the tree…
All Hallows, Louise Glück #halloween
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49605/...
All Hallows, Louise Glück #halloween
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49605/...
Mary in Childbed (lime wood c. 1510). Intrigued by this rare & empathetic representation of Mary without the baby Jesus. But is it before or after the birth? A popular devotional image for women in Swabia (southwest Germany) from C14th on. Germanisches Nationalmuseum #Nuremberg #art
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Mary in Childbed (lime wood c. 1510). Intrigued by this rare & empathetic representation of Mary without the baby Jesus. But is it before or after the birth? A popular devotional image for women in Swabia (southwest Germany) from C14th on. Germanisches Nationalmuseum #Nuremberg #art
Shall we dance? Composer of the Week celebrates 200 years of the Waltz King, Johann #Strauss II. Each day at 4pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds with Donald Macleod (Strauss Jnr also top contender for the title of Whiskers King) Producer Sam Phillips #Strauss200
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Shall we dance? Composer of the Week celebrates 200 years of the Waltz King, Johann #Strauss II. Each day at 4pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds with Donald Macleod (Strauss Jnr also top contender for the title of Whiskers King) Producer Sam Phillips #Strauss200
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
J S #Bach in the world is the theme of our Composer of the Week, focusing on his secular music - and some of his more rebellious moments. Presented by Donald Macleod & produced by Amelia Parker 4pm each weekday @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds #classicalmusic
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
October 14, 2025 at 7:05 AM
J S #Bach in the world is the theme of our Composer of the Week, focusing on his secular music - and some of his more rebellious moments. Presented by Donald Macleod & produced by Amelia Parker 4pm each weekday @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds #classicalmusic
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Legend: The Bruce #Springsteen Story - @ladymissbarton.bsky.social explores how a scrawny, long-haired introvert from New Jersey became the iconic, muscular rock star of the ‘80s. A labour of love by Eliza Lomas & Mair Bosworth Starts Sat 10.30 @BBCRadio4 Trailer: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Legend: The Bruce #Springsteen Story - @ladymissbarton.bsky.social explores how a scrawny, long-haired introvert from New Jersey became the iconic, muscular rock star of the ‘80s. A labour of love by Eliza Lomas & Mair Bosworth Starts Sat 10.30 @BBCRadio4 Trailer: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Wonderful to see @welshnatopera.bsky.social’s dramatic, disquieting #Tosca last night @wmccmc.bsky.social #Cardiff -including a spine-tingling Te Deum from the Chorus & beautiful design by Tom Scutt. As ever, my only complaint is that there are so few performances #Puccini wno.org.uk/whats-on/tos...
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Wonderful to see @welshnatopera.bsky.social’s dramatic, disquieting #Tosca last night @wmccmc.bsky.social #Cardiff -including a spine-tingling Te Deum from the Chorus & beautiful design by Tom Scutt. As ever, my only complaint is that there are so few performances #Puccini wno.org.uk/whats-on/tos...
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun’
#Keats’ To Autumn, written #otd 19 Sept 1819, after an evening walk by the River Itchen near Winchester - one of the last poems he would write. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun’
#Keats’ To Autumn, written #otd 19 Sept 1819, after an evening walk by the River Itchen near Winchester - one of the last poems he would write. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
September 19, 2025 at 6:36 AM
‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun’
#Keats’ To Autumn, written #otd 19 Sept 1819, after an evening walk by the River Itchen near Winchester - one of the last poems he would write. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun’
#Keats’ To Autumn, written #otd 19 Sept 1819, after an evening walk by the River Itchen near Winchester - one of the last poems he would write. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44484/...
Robert #Schumann is our Composer of the Week each weekday at 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores his years in #Düsseldorf – the city where he would spend the final years of his life & write some of his greatest music. Producer Sam Phillips #classicalmusic #Rhineland www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Robert #Schumann is our Composer of the Week each weekday at 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores his years in #Düsseldorf – the city where he would spend the final years of his life & write some of his greatest music. Producer Sam Phillips #classicalmusic #Rhineland www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Recording on location with the incomparable Nigel Lewis
August 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Recording on location with the incomparable Nigel Lewis
Glorious Gloucester Cathedral. The earliest example of fan vaulting (1350s) & the first use of alabaster for a king’s effigy (Edward II). I also enjoyed our guide’s gloss of Edward II’s downfall as being due to ‘his wife not liking him very much’.
August 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Glorious Gloucester Cathedral. The earliest example of fan vaulting (1350s) & the first use of alabaster for a king’s effigy (Edward II). I also enjoyed our guide’s gloss of Edward II’s downfall as being due to ‘his wife not liking him very much’.
When Eric met Fred (Delius) - our Composer of the Week. Fellow Yorkshireman Eric Fenby helps an ailing #Delius to complete his work. Each weekday at 4pm with Donald Macleod @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds @bradford2025.co.uk #Bradford #Yorkshire #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
When Eric met Fred (Delius) - our Composer of the Week. Fellow Yorkshireman Eric Fenby helps an ailing #Delius to complete his work. Each weekday at 4pm with Donald Macleod @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds @bradford2025.co.uk #Bradford #Yorkshire #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
“But imprint this on your mind: tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
-The Magic Mountain, #ThomasMann who died #otd 1955.
I recommend this edition of Great Lives @BBCSounds with Matthew Parris @susiedent.com & Karolina Watroba Producer Toby Field #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
-The Magic Mountain, #ThomasMann who died #otd 1955.
I recommend this edition of Great Lives @BBCSounds with Matthew Parris @susiedent.com & Karolina Watroba Producer Toby Field #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
August 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
“But imprint this on your mind: tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
-The Magic Mountain, #ThomasMann who died #otd 1955.
I recommend this edition of Great Lives @BBCSounds with Matthew Parris @susiedent.com & Karolina Watroba Producer Toby Field #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
-The Magic Mountain, #ThomasMann who died #otd 1955.
I recommend this edition of Great Lives @BBCSounds with Matthew Parris @susiedent.com & Karolina Watroba Producer Toby Field #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color — no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June
- Anne Sexton #poetry
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color — no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June
- Anne Sexton #poetry
August 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
By the first of August
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color — no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June
- Anne Sexton #poetry
the invisible beetles began
to snore and the grass was
as tough as hemp and was
no color — no more than
the sand was a color and
we had worn our bare feet
bare since the twentieth
of June
- Anne Sexton #poetry
The travelling #Tchaikovsky - that’s the theme of our Composer of the Week each day 4pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds Today Donald Macleod follows his grand tour of Europe. Producer Iain Chambers #classicalmusic
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 21, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The travelling #Tchaikovsky - that’s the theme of our Composer of the Week each day 4pm @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds Today Donald Macleod follows his grand tour of Europe. Producer Iain Chambers #classicalmusic
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Pleased to encounter this #AugustusJohn portrait of Richard Hughes @TenbyMuseum - author of A High Wind in Jamaica. He’s also often credited as writer of the BBC’s first radio drama - Danger (1924), though Phyllis Twigg’s The Truth about Father Christmas predates that (Dec 1922) #art #radiohistory
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Pleased to encounter this #AugustusJohn portrait of Richard Hughes @TenbyMuseum - author of A High Wind in Jamaica. He’s also often credited as writer of the BBC’s first radio drama - Danger (1924), though Phyllis Twigg’s The Truth about Father Christmas predates that (Dec 1922) #art #radiohistory
Move over Gavin & Stacey… Our Composer of the Week is the original star of #Barry - Grace Williams, one of #Wales’s most celebrated composers. Donald Macleod explores her life & work, 4pm each weekday @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds Producer Alice McKee #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Move over Gavin & Stacey… Our Composer of the Week is the original star of #Barry - Grace Williams, one of #Wales’s most celebrated composers. Donald Macleod explores her life & work, 4pm each weekday @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds Producer Alice McKee #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The Hiawatha Phenomenon - oboist and researcher Uchenna Ngwe charts the changing fortunes of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral hit, The Song of Hiawatha. Sunday Documentary @BBCRadio3 19.15 Sun 6 July or @BBCSounds Producers Chris Taylor and Amelia Parker #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
July 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The Hiawatha Phenomenon - oboist and researcher Uchenna Ngwe charts the changing fortunes of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral hit, The Song of Hiawatha. Sunday Documentary @BBCRadio3 19.15 Sun 6 July or @BBCSounds Producers Chris Taylor and Amelia Parker #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Tiara-boom-de-ay… Lots of Royal bling on display in The #Edwardians exhibition at the King’s Gallery, but also a haunted sense of a world about to disappear. Was drawn to this Holbein-like chalk portrait of #Elgar by William Strang & Sarah Bernhardt’s self-portrait as a chimera #art
July 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Tiara-boom-de-ay… Lots of Royal bling on display in The #Edwardians exhibition at the King’s Gallery, but also a haunted sense of a world about to disappear. Was drawn to this Holbein-like chalk portrait of #Elgar by William Strang & Sarah Bernhardt’s self-portrait as a chimera #art
The Gymnopédiste - in Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 each day at 4pm Donald Macleod explores the life of maverick composer Erik #Satie, inventor of “furniture music”, whose innovations delighted & divided France. Producer Alice McKee. Also @BBCSounds #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The Gymnopédiste - in Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 each day at 4pm Donald Macleod explores the life of maverick composer Erik #Satie, inventor of “furniture music”, whose innovations delighted & divided France. Producer Alice McKee. Also @BBCSounds #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Roman Holiday... Donald Macleod invites you to Renaissance Rome, where our investigation into the origins of Giovanni da #Palestrina begins. One of history's most influential composers, born 500 years ago. Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds 4pm #Palestrina500 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Roman Holiday... Donald Macleod invites you to Renaissance Rome, where our investigation into the origins of Giovanni da #Palestrina begins. One of history's most influential composers, born 500 years ago. Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds 4pm #Palestrina500 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Sibling love, sibling rivalry. Donald Macleod traces the musical development of #FannyHensel née #Mendelssohn, whose own potential would be held back by social convention. Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 each day at 4pm @BBCSounds. Producer Luke Whitlock #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
June 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Sibling love, sibling rivalry. Donald Macleod traces the musical development of #FannyHensel née #Mendelssohn, whose own potential would be held back by social convention. Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 each day at 4pm @BBCSounds. Producer Luke Whitlock #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...