🔗 DELIUS Song of Summer: Ken Russell

🔗 ‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain

🔗 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.

🔗 Top 10 English composers

The sound world of Delius is immediately recognisable – 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.

🔗 Frederick Delius – the cosmopolitan composer

🔗 BFI Screenonline: Ken Russell’s Composers

🔗 Ken Russell obituary

🔗 Mosaic Depicting Two Flip-Flop–Like Sandals Discovered at the Roman Villa del Casale in Sicily

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

🔗 A Span of Autonomy

Available on Mixcloud

🔗 ‘I wanted to be Nina Simone’: Jeff Buckley documentary shows female influences

🔗 DH Lawrence Society

The DH Lawrence Society is based in Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, where Lawrence was born in 1885.

🔗 James Walker

via D.H.Lawrence Society

🔗 nntk.net

No Need to Know

🔗 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.

🔗 8 Classic Negroni Variations

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

🔗 ‘Nobody makes a record like that for the money’: how Gang of Four made Entertainment!

🔗 Alfred Brendel obituary

🔗 ‘A wonderful mystery to be solved’: search begins in Dorset for ‘the Mother of all tanks’

🔗 The Doors: ‘You could call us erotic politicians’

🔗 ‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom

🔗 Inside the world’s largest archeology museum - the Grand Egyptian Museum in pictures

🔗 Guy Garvey on Elbow’s One Day Like This: ‘Every week, someone tells me they got married to it’

🔗 First English cheese treatise digitized, transcribed

🔗 Dosso Dossi

Inside the Colosseum: Hidden Mechanisms of Ancient Rome