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  • ๐Ÿ”— DELIUS Song of Summer: Ken Russell

    27 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— โ€˜People just lieโ€™: How Riverfordโ€™s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

    24 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Mark’s notes on Shostakovich Symphony No. 11

    Mark Wigglesworth

    Ultimately, the debate about whether Shostakovich is portraying the heroism of Russians in 1905 or Hungarians in 1956 is irrelevant. It does not matter whether he is attacking the violence of Cossack troops or the aggression of Red Army tanks. What is clear is his obvious empathy with all who try to rise up against tyranny and his passionate antipathy towards all who oppress them.

    22 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Top 10 English composers

    The sound world of Delius is immediately recognisable โ€“ warm, luminous orchestral colours, hazy, impressionistic tone pictures tinged with a romantic glow. No one (unless you include popular music arrangers) followed in his footsteps. He belonged to no tradition; he led nowhere.

    20 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Frederick Delius โ€“ the cosmopolitan composer

    20 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— BFI Screenonline: Ken Russell’s Composers

    20 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Ken Russell obituary

    20 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Mosaic Depicting Two Flip-Flopโ€“Like Sandals Discovered at the Roman Villa del Casale in Sicily

    > two sandals whose resemblance to modern flip-flops has surprised researchers

    16 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— A Span of Autonomy

    Available on Mixcloud

    15 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— โ€˜I wanted to be Nina Simoneโ€™: Jeff Buckley documentary shows female influences

    11 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— DH Lawrence Society

    The DH Lawrence Society is based in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, where Lawrence was born in 1885.
    10 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— James Walker

    via D.H.Lawrence Society

    10 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— nntk.net

    No Need to Know

    7 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— A Span of Autonomy

    An audio documentary about Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective.

    Broadcast on Resonance FM at 12pm (BST) on Thursday 14th August 2025 and then available to listen on Mixcloud.

    6 August 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— 8 Classic Negroni Variations

    The Americano cocktail recipe is made up of just two ingredients; Campari and sweet vermouth.

    31 July 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— โ€˜Nobody makes a record like that for the moneyโ€™: how Gang of Four made Entertainment!

    23 June 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Alfred Brendel obituary

    18 June 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— โ€˜A wonderful mystery to be solvedโ€™: search begins in Dorset for โ€˜the Mother of all tanksโ€™

    8 June 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— The Doors: ‘You could call us erotic politicians’

    30 May 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— โ€˜My mother didnโ€™t try to stab my father until I was sixโ€™: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom

    26 May 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Inside the worldโ€™s largest archeology museum - the Grand Egyptian Museum in pictures

    13 May 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Guy Garvey on Elbowโ€™s One Day Like This: โ€˜Every week, someone tells me they got married to itโ€™

    13 May 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— First English cheese treatise digitized, transcribed

    2 May 2025
  • ๐Ÿ”— Dosso Dossi

    26 April 2025
  • Inside the Colosseum: Hidden Mechanisms of Ancient Rome

    24 April 2025

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