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Petroc Trelawny
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Presenter BBC Radio 3, author of Trelawny’s Cornwall.
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Trelawny's Cornwall ... in Cornwall. Join me Cornwall
Museum and Art Gallery at
Truro on Wednesday. A free talk for members at 3pm, and a celebration of Cornwall through objects in the museum's collection at 7pm, with the brilliant @daphneskinnard hosting. Ticket link below @wnbooks.bsky.social
Some exciting news to share - Petroc Trelawny’s Classical Music Puzzle Book will be published in October. But you can pre-order a copy now from ⁦‪@Waterstones‬⁩ and enjoy a 25% discount. Search ‘Petroc Trelawny’ at waterstones.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Delius’s music on In Tune from Bradford today. This is his birthplace - 6 Claremont, and the nearby German Lutheran Church. Join us live from Bradford Live - 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.
July 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
a brilliant reinvention of a once cherished mega-cinema. The auditorium of Bradford Live is pretty impressive. In Tune comes live from here today between 5-7pm on BBC Radio 3.
July 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Yorkshire Calling ! In Tune live from Bradford this afternoon 1700-1900.
July 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Free tomorrow afternoon (Sunday) ? Join us at St Mark’s Regent’s Park for music by Elgar, Tomkins, Farnaby, Holst, Tippett, Lloyd and more, interspersed with readings from Trelawny’s Cornwall. 3pm. Admission Free. Maybe see you there ….
June 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Rebecca Evans is a fabulous singer, a real musical star and a lovely person. And she's coming to TRURO ! Hear her with Welsh National Opera & Tomáš Hanus at
Hall for Cornwall on July 12th. With Beethoven's Eroica Symphony in the mix as well ! Will be a great concert.
June 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Are you in London next Sunday ? I’ll be reading from #TrelawnysCornwall in a programme of words/music at St Mark’s Regent’s Park NW1 at 15h00 on 29/6. Free - just turn up. And books on sale too. Penzance, Buxton, Chiswick, Appledore and other appearances ahead. @wnbooks.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Great concert tonight on BBC4 - Vienna Philharmonic at Palais Garnier with guest appearances from guests including Bryn Terrell, Yuja Wang and Rolando
Villazon. I’ll be commentating. 7.30 - or later at BBC iPlayer.
June 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Lovely afternoon for a visit to Newquay to help open @celticmediafest.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Trelawny's Cornwall ... in Cornwall. Join me Cornwall
Museum and Art Gallery at
Truro on Wednesday. A free talk for members at 3pm, and a celebration of Cornwall through objects in the museum's collection at 7pm, with the brilliant @daphneskinnard hosting. Ticket link below @wnbooks.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
spread the word - Trelawny’s Cornwall is out in paperback tomorrow. Order now from your local bookshop. @wnbooks.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Fancy a sultry evening of smooth summer classics ? I'll be at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester tomorrow evening to host The Hallé Orchestra in concert -
Agata Zając will conduct and leader Roberto Ruisi will be soloist. It's going to be a very special night.

Saturday 24th May 7.30pm
May 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Trelawny's Cornwall is out in paperback on May 29th. Pre-order now from your local bookshop. Meanwhile I'll be appearing at the du Maurier
Fowey Festival this Saturday (May 17th) at 2pm and at the Bude Literary Festival this Sunday (May 18th) at 1pm. Maybe see you there ?
May 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
another week of great guests BBC Radio 3 In Tune including Jivin' Miss Daisy, Her Ensemble, actor Anton Lesser & conductor David Le Page and violinist Randall Goosby & pianist Zhu Wang. With live music daily ... it's essential listening with Katie Derham & myself.
May 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Great to have Jacqui Dankworth with me on In Tune on BBC Radio 3 this evening. With pianist (and arranger) Charlie Wood, Oli Hayhurst on bass and Sebastian De Krom (drums). Her new album Windmills is out now. She sings Windmills of Your Mind next.
April 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A Good Friday cross above central London.
April 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we welcome Frances Madden and her band to In Tune this afternoon - Rob Updegraff (guitar), Phil Donnelly (bass), Mez Clough (drums) and Amy Sears (backing vocals). Listen live BBC Radio 3 or later BBC Sounds
April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Laura and Sarah Ayoub play live on In Tune this afternoon and discuss Scottish/Egyptian musical connections. Already this week we have welcomed to the studio cellist Sterling Elliott & pianist Joseph Havlat and tenor James Way & pianist Natalie Burch. Join us @BBCRadio3
April 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
great to be back here again as The Chaos Quartet rehearse ahead of today’s ⁦‪Wigmore
Hall lunchtime concert. Early Schubert & Britten and a 1960’s masterwork by Ligeti. Live at 13h00 ⁦‪BBC Radio 3‬⁩
April 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Inside the In Tune studio - Gemma Rosefield and Tim Horton soundcheck. They will play Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Casals just before 6.30 live ⁦‪on BBC Radio 3‬⁩
April 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Martin Feinstein and his eponymous ensemble are rehearsing in the In Tune studio. They play Bach and Telemann on air today from five @BBCRadio3 Great guests already this week incl. Sir Mark Elder, Hayoung Choi & Alim Beisembayev and Freddie Ballentine & Kunal Lahiry.
April 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The new office … In Tune on air at 5pm at BBC Radio 3 with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, conductor@Sir Mark Elder and pianist TianXu An
April 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Good morning. Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Anna Tilbrook asks us to sing along as we cross a rainbow, Bach writes a cantata for a new regime, Hannah Peel surveys a dusty nebula, Britten salutes Young Apollo, Brenda Wootton at Lamorna, Ned Rorem's breakfast & a hydrophone.
April 4, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Last early morning commute …
April 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Good Morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live - Wagner helps Thomas Hampson sing to an evening star, Steven Osborne takes on the challenge of Ravel’s Waltz, to the open water with Britten and gentler ripples as Mengyiyi Chen plays a Barcarolle by Mel Bonis.
April 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM