Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2012
Posts (9)
Napoleon on 3
From the Battle of Borodino panorama by Franz Roubaud Tim Dee is producing three Sunday Features and a week of Essays - all on the subject of Napoleon and 1812 - as part of Radio 3's Napoleon season which begins next week. Here, he gives the background to some exciting programming Se...
New horizons - the BBC Symphony's Middle East tour
BBC Symphony Orchestra sub-principal viola Phil Hall finds a growing appetite for Western music in the Gulf Arab states ... When I started touring with professional orchestras 20-plus years ago, the majority of tour circuits tended to consist of European cities, North America, South America,...
LJF lowdown
Shabaka Hutchings at the London Jazz Festival Photo: Emile Holba/BBC The London Jazz Festival in association with Radio 3 has truly kicked off in style! With an energetic opening Jazz Voice concert live from the Barbican the audience both at home and in the hall were treated to an ec...
Lover's Rock Drama
Brixton man in the 1980s. Photo: Getty Images Writer Rex Obano blogs about his forthcoming Radio 3 play, Lover's Rock, set in troubled south London in 1981. You can hear the play, starring Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, at 830pm on Sunday. In the early hours of the 18th January 1981, fire spread...
Today's viewing from Free Thinking at The Sage Gateshead
Rosalind Porter is a Radio 3 Listener Blogger Whatever the weather, wherever you are - do come along to The Sage Gateshead today for the final frantic round of Free Thinking events. But even if you prefer to stay at home in the warm - there's plenty of Free Thinking to be cogitated on via the...
What makes good radio viewing?
Music Matters panel: (l to r) Paul Morley, Zoe Martlew, Tom Service, Kathryn Tickell, Graham Vick Rosalind Porter is a Radio 3 Listener Blogger. It has been an interesting morning so far, snuggled up near a warm radiator, my laptop on my knees with the Free Thinking guide beside me. I'm ...
Watching Colm Toibin - Free Thinking's Books at Breakfast
Philip Dodd (left) and Colm Toibin. Photo: BBC This live streaming webcast was an absolutely brilliant programme. It immediately reminded me of the old style culture programmes one would get on TV years ago with the inimitable Huw Weldon's 'Monitor': One interviewer - in this case Night ...
Blogging on ... to the Free Thinking video stream
Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson. Photo © BBC Radio 3 Listener Blogger Rosalind Porter reports from Free Thinking 2012 at The Sage Gatehead Once again the foyers and halls are bustling with thinkers and there's a major new innovation to bring more people into the live exper...
Drama of the Free Thinking Drama ...
Broadcasting live radio drama is a seat-of-the-pants exercise. Producer Kate Rowland describes what goes in to this Sunday's Free Thinking Drama from Gateshead's Baltic Exchange ... Each year the Freethinking drama does two things to me, it gives me a huge creative adrenalin rush, and in equa...
