Freya Hellier
@freyahellier.bsky.social
I make radio & podcasts about music, society, sex + culture, ex
@bbcradio3. Scottish, parent, crap pianist, hopeful accordionist.
Producing some of Screenshot on BBC Radio 4, Menopause Unmuted, + Everything Jazz
https://linktr.ee/freyahellier
@bbcradio3. Scottish, parent, crap pianist, hopeful accordionist.
Producing some of Screenshot on BBC Radio 4, Menopause Unmuted, + Everything Jazz
https://linktr.ee/freyahellier
I'm overdue a catch up...been busy doing lots of stuff including this episode of #Screenshot on doppelgangers and clones.
Psyche bending stuff with Richard Ayoade, a history lesson from Prof. Monster @adamgolub.bsky.social & acting secrets from Martha Byrne
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Psyche bending stuff with Richard Ayoade, a history lesson from Prof. Monster @adamgolub.bsky.social & acting secrets from Martha Byrne
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Screenshot, Doppelgangers
Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore the world of doppelgangers on screen.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm overdue a catch up...been busy doing lots of stuff including this episode of #Screenshot on doppelgangers and clones.
Psyche bending stuff with Richard Ayoade, a history lesson from Prof. Monster @adamgolub.bsky.social & acting secrets from Martha Byrne
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Psyche bending stuff with Richard Ayoade, a history lesson from Prof. Monster @adamgolub.bsky.social & acting secrets from Martha Byrne
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Reposted by Freya Hellier
I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I knew this piece about Neil Gaiman was in the works, and still, I felt sick reading it.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
TW: rape, abuse, coercion, and child sex abuse.
For those of us lucky enough to have had a proper break over Christmas: good luck getting to sleep tonight. The exhausting familiarity of reality will resume shortly
a cartoon character is laying in a bed with a pillow and a blue blanket .
ALT: a cartoon character is laying in a bed with a pillow and a blue blanket .
media.tenor.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
For those of us lucky enough to have had a proper break over Christmas: good luck getting to sleep tonight. The exhausting familiarity of reality will resume shortly
Rays of Light over Glasgow
January 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Rays of Light over Glasgow
My album of the year for @everythingjazz.bsky.social is @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's wonderful Technically Acceptable
Read the full collection of writer's picks from the year....
www.everythingjazz.com/story/our-al...
Read the full collection of writer's picks from the year....
www.everythingjazz.com/story/our-al...
Our Albums Of The Year 2024 - Everything Jazz
Discover the definitive 2024 jazz albums of the year, chosen by our expert team of Everything Jazz writers - from exciting new albums by contemporary artists to groundbreaking archival discoveries and...
www.everythingjazz.com
December 20, 2024 at 11:19 AM
My album of the year for @everythingjazz.bsky.social is @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's wonderful Technically Acceptable
Read the full collection of writer's picks from the year....
www.everythingjazz.com/story/our-al...
Read the full collection of writer's picks from the year....
www.everythingjazz.com/story/our-al...
Douglas Gordon’s nod to Hitchcock’s Vertigo in Glasgow’s Trongate
December 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Douglas Gordon’s nod to Hitchcock’s Vertigo in Glasgow’s Trongate
Published this yesterday on @everythingjazz.bsky.social, it was wonderful to revisit this album which still sounds so timeless and forward thinking. Thanks to Andrew Taylor Dawson for a great piece.
Pianist Chick Corea’s music has always drawn on a huge range of influences, but it was his second album where he really found his voice. Learn more about the moment in history that it was created within.
#chickcorea #everythingjazz #jazz #nowhesingsnowhesobs
www.everythingjazz.com/story/chick-...
#chickcorea #everythingjazz #jazz #nowhesingsnowhesobs
www.everythingjazz.com/story/chick-...
Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Everything Jazz
Pianist Chick Corea’s music draws on a huge range of influences, but it was his second album where he found his voice. Read and buy on Everything Jazz.
www.everythingjazz.com
December 13, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Published this yesterday on @everythingjazz.bsky.social, it was wonderful to revisit this album which still sounds so timeless and forward thinking. Thanks to Andrew Taylor Dawson for a great piece.
The @uofglasgow.bsky.social in the purple fog
December 10, 2024 at 10:03 PM
The @uofglasgow.bsky.social in the purple fog
no place has a weirder street culture and it's great
December 6, 2024 at 2:36 PM
no place has a weirder street culture and it's great
Reposted by Freya Hellier
Sorrow remembers us when day is done.
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021)
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021)
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
December 6, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Sorrow remembers us when day is done.
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021)
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
It sits in its old chair gently rocking
and singing tenderly in the evening…
—Iain Crichton Smith, “When Day is Done”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021)
www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...
Just published on @everythingjazz.bsky.social a great first piece from our latest new writer, the composer @jonopstad.bsky.social on Jan Garbarek's beautiful 1971 Afric Pepperbird and the emergence of the ECM aesthetic
www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...
www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...
Afric Pepperbird – Early Jan Garbarek and the Beginnings of ECM - Everything Jazz
55 years since the birth of ECM, we revisit a record that distills the spirit of the label and its founder Manfred Eicher. Read & Buy on Everything Jazz
www.everythingjazz.com
December 5, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Just published on @everythingjazz.bsky.social a great first piece from our latest new writer, the composer @jonopstad.bsky.social on Jan Garbarek's beautiful 1971 Afric Pepperbird and the emergence of the ECM aesthetic
www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...
www.everythingjazz.com/story/afric-...
Ya beauty!
Disney+ has renewed the outrageously entertaining British drama #Rivals for season 2. More on the news below.
Rivals | Disney+ renews hit series for season 2
Disney+ has renewed the outrageously entertaining British drama Rivals for season 2. More on the news below.
buff.ly
December 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Ya beauty!
Just published this on @everythingjazz.bsky.social Daniel Spicer's great survey of Max Roach in his centenary year
www.everythingjazz.com/story/max-ro...
www.everythingjazz.com/story/max-ro...
Max Roach - The Most Melodious Drummer in Jazz - Everything Jazz
In drummer Max Roach's centenary year, we take a closer look at his stellar career and some of the recordings that define it. Read & buy on Everything Jazz
www.everythingjazz.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Just published this on @everythingjazz.bsky.social Daniel Spicer's great survey of Max Roach in his centenary year
www.everythingjazz.com/story/max-ro...
www.everythingjazz.com/story/max-ro...
YES! this is such a great Christmas movie for everyone except those left by their families at boarding school
As it wasn't released in time for Christmas in the UK, a reminder that The Holdovers is a bloody brilliant Christmas film.
December 4, 2024 at 1:45 PM
YES! this is such a great Christmas movie for everyone except those left by their families at boarding school
This is horrible, and a great reminder that we are in the wild west of media at the moment
I hope it comes with a disclaimer for listeners that guests have paid to be interviewed
I hope it comes with a disclaimer for listeners that guests have paid to be interviewed
Today I woke up to a podcast invitation. Not unusual. There are a lot of Star Wars podcasts and I say no far more often than I say yes.
What was unusual was that this podcast wanted me to pay them $55 as an “appearance fee.”
Honey. No.
What was unusual was that this podcast wanted me to pay them $55 as an “appearance fee.”
Honey. No.
December 4, 2024 at 11:20 AM
This is horrible, and a great reminder that we are in the wild west of media at the moment
I hope it comes with a disclaimer for listeners that guests have paid to be interviewed
I hope it comes with a disclaimer for listeners that guests have paid to be interviewed
Great piece full of context, sense and feeling
In our weekend read, @danigaravelli.bsky.social ponders a question cropping up more frequently as Glasgow struggles to find municipal funds.
❓Should those who rely on the city's infrastructure, but live outside its tax borders be paying more towards its upkeep?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/should-glasg...
❓Should those who rely on the city's infrastructure, but live outside its tax borders be paying more towards its upkeep?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/should-glasg...
Should Glasgow's suburbs subsidise the city?
Play in Pollok Park, work in town; pay tax in East Ren.
www.glasgowbell.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Great piece full of context, sense and feeling
Reposted by Freya Hellier
Here, I got you one of those you like:
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
www.donpaterson.net/about-1-1
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
www.donpaterson.net/about-1-1
December 2, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Here, I got you one of those you like:
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
www.donpaterson.net/about-1-1
those bewildered late bloomers, tough and small
and sweeter than they’ve any right to be…
—Don Paterson, “A Winter Apple”
Published in THE ARCTIC, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2022
www.donpaterson.net/about-1-1
Just published this on @everythingjazz.bsky.social
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social's hottest new band is a supergroup in the making
Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Gerald Clayton, Matt Brewer, & Kendrick Scott - Avengers Assemble!
www.everythingjazz.com/story/sowing...
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social's hottest new band is a supergroup in the making
Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Gerald Clayton, Matt Brewer, & Kendrick Scott - Avengers Assemble!
www.everythingjazz.com/story/sowing...
Sowing the Seeds of a New Jazz Supergroup: Out Of/Into - Motion I - Everything Jazz
Assembled to mark 85 years of Blue Note Records, a new band is on the block, and it’s here to stay. Read & buy on Everything Jazz
www.everythingjazz.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Just published this on @everythingjazz.bsky.social
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social's hottest new band is a supergroup in the making
Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Gerald Clayton, Matt Brewer, & Kendrick Scott - Avengers Assemble!
www.everythingjazz.com/story/sowing...
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social's hottest new band is a supergroup in the making
Immanuel Wilkins, Joel Ross, Gerald Clayton, Matt Brewer, & Kendrick Scott - Avengers Assemble!
www.everythingjazz.com/story/sowing...
New on @everythingjazz.bsky.social this week - a clutch of Christmas jazz on vinyl that is properly swinging and good. Guaranteed not to drive you mad!
www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-co...
www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-co...
The Coolest Jazz Albums to Make Your Christmas Swing with Style - Everything Jazz
The holidays can be a testing time for discerning music lovers. Our pick of quality Christmas jazz is enough to get the Grinch grooving! Buy on Everything Jazz
www.everythingjazz.com
November 28, 2024 at 1:55 PM
New on @everythingjazz.bsky.social this week - a clutch of Christmas jazz on vinyl that is properly swinging and good. Guaranteed not to drive you mad!
www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-co...
www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-co...
We were lucky to be in the Barrowlands for the shooting of James McAvoy’s directorial debut “California Schemin” - the true story of two rappers from Dundee who were laughed out of London by the music biz for being Scottish…/
November 27, 2024 at 10:59 PM
We were lucky to be in the Barrowlands for the shooting of James McAvoy’s directorial debut “California Schemin” - the true story of two rappers from Dundee who were laughed out of London by the music biz for being Scottish…/
Reposted by Freya Hellier
"Listen Moira, I'm no in the mood. It's a baw or nothin".
An exasperated looking Santa meets his match in the form of a crowd of Glasgow nursery weans.
📷 Newsquest
An exasperated looking Santa meets his match in the form of a crowd of Glasgow nursery weans.
📷 Newsquest
November 27, 2024 at 10:47 AM
"Listen Moira, I'm no in the mood. It's a baw or nothin".
An exasperated looking Santa meets his match in the form of a crowd of Glasgow nursery weans.
📷 Newsquest
An exasperated looking Santa meets his match in the form of a crowd of Glasgow nursery weans.
📷 Newsquest
Great Coltrane context
The saxophone legend’s often overlooked album gem “Crescent” celebrates its 60th anniversary. It’s so much more than just the precursor to “A Love Supreme”.
www.everythingjazz.com/story/john-c...
#johncoltrane #crescent #alovesupreme #rudyvangelder #ericdolphy #verve #ververecords #impulse
www.everythingjazz.com/story/john-c...
#johncoltrane #crescent #alovesupreme #rudyvangelder #ericdolphy #verve #ververecords #impulse
John Coltrane's criminally underrated record - Everything Jazz
The saxophone legend’s often overlooked album gem "Crescent" celebrates its 60th anniversary. It's so much more than just the precursor to “A Love Supreme”.
www.everythingjazz.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Great Coltrane context
@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social right on the money, as always
In the 21st century, why is anyone still playing jazz standards? For many musicians, it’s not what you play, it’s how you play it.
@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social
www.everythingjazz.com/story/to-sta...
#ethaniverson #jazzstandards #ceciltaylor #jimmylyons #everythingjazz #jazz
@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social
www.everythingjazz.com/story/to-sta...
#ethaniverson #jazzstandards #ceciltaylor #jimmylyons #everythingjazz #jazz
To Standard, or Not to Standard? - Everything Jazz
Why is anyone still playing jazz standards? For many musicians, it’s not what you play, it’s how you play it. Read Ethan Iverson’s story on Everything Jazz
www.everythingjazz.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:48 PM
@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social right on the money, as always
Bonny Light Horseman joined by the wonderful Aidan O’Rourke & Martin Green from Lau at the QMU in Glasgow
November 23, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Bonny Light Horseman joined by the wonderful Aidan O’Rourke & Martin Green from Lau at the QMU in Glasgow
Reposted by Freya Hellier
Read the Everything Jazz feature on “The Jazz Discovery of the Year” --> McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson's "Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’" including an interview with producer Zev Feldman! www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-ja...
The Jazz Discovery of the Year? - Tyner & Henderson's "Forces of Nature" - Everything Jazz
Zev Feldman shares the story of the discovery of musical treasure - McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson’s “Forces of Nature”. Read & Buy on Everything Jazz
www.everythingjazz.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Read the Everything Jazz feature on “The Jazz Discovery of the Year” --> McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson's "Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’" including an interview with producer Zev Feldman! www.everythingjazz.com/story/the-ja...