Emma Harding
@emmaharding
Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19
Loved Birmingham Rep’s ferocious production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd starring Ramin Karimloo & Meow Meow. Uniformly excellent singing. Elin Steele’s design & Rory Beaton’s lighting chillingly powerful. Directed by Joe Murphy. One more week to catch it! www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/swe...
When Madame la Guillotine beckons, two composers must use their hands to save their heads. Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama. Ep 19. 1794: Les enfants de la patrie 1pm Sat or listen now @BBCSounds #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Alongside the latest ep of Key Changes, which looks at The Marriage of Figaro, Kate Molleson tells #Mozart’s story in Composer of the Week through five relationships that shaped his life & music. Today, his father Leopold. 4pm @BBCRadio3 Producer Megan Jones www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & Simon Schama Ep 18 The Figaro Revolution 1pm Sat 1 Aug or find whole series @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Our Composer of the Week is C19th Londoner Alice Mary Smith - a series only made possible by new recordings by BBC performing groups. Donald Macleod charts the life & career of the first women in Britain to have a symphony publicly performed. 4pm @BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Delighted to welcome Simon Schama to Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of #ClassicalMusic with Gillian Moore. Simon talks to @petroc.bsky.social on In Tune c.6.30pm. From Haydn to Rossini via the French Revolution & Jane Austen’s piano. @BBCSounds #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Hallelujah! Handel’s Messiah hits Dublin in Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 18 July or listen any time @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy #classicalmusic #history www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The #SpanishCivilWar started 90 years ago #otd “My corpse a photograph taken by fate… I shall remain As faithful to the vanished moment’s violence As love fixed to one day in vain. Only the world changes, and time its tense.” Stephen Spender ‘War Photograph’ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
1727: Season of the Violin 🎻 Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 11 July or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Zerlina Vulliamy #Vivaldi #Stradivarius www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The fascinating story of Fela Sowande & Nigerian art music is the subject of Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod talks to Alexander Douglas to explore where Yoruba rhythms & melodies meet European influences. Producer Ellie Ajao #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Pitch Imperfect: @bbcradio3’s Essential History of Classical Music reaches the age of #JSBach! Key Changes with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 5 July or listen any time @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor #history #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Three great Czechs born #otd 3rd July - Leoš Janáček, Franz Kafka & Tom Stoppard. Perhaps the stars really do align.
“How long does a man live after all?” A very special edition of Poetry Please today 4pm @BBCRadio4 in which Roger McGough celebrates the life & work of his friend Brian Patten, who died last year. He’s joined by admirers including Lemn Sissay #MerseySound www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
As we head towards 4th July, Composer of the Week @BBCRadio3 explores the life & music of Leonard #Bernstein - a major force in the creation of the musical identity of the USA. With Donald Macleod each day at 4pm or @BBCSounds Producer Sam Phillips www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Our Island Music - a week long series 21.45 @BBCRadio3 in which musician & writer Colin MacIntyre, aka Mull Historical Society, explores 5 different British islands & what island life means to their musicians. Tonight, the Isle of #Mull. Producer Maggie Ayre www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Key Changes: BBC Radio 3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Episode 13: Singing Superstars 1pm Sat 27 June or listen now @BBCSounds Producer Chris Taylor #classicalmusic #history #opera www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Between Westminster and sunstruck St Paul’s The desert has entered the flea’s belly… - Heatwave by Ted Hughes
Even a heatwave can’t stop Hildegard of Bingen. Or @BBCRadio3 Key Changes presenters Gillian Moore & Michael Wood who discussed five centuries of music, from plainchant to Tallis, at wonderful @chalkefestival.bsky.social yesterday. Catch up with whole series so far www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Following our exploration of music in Restoration Britain in the latest ep of Key Changes, Composer of the Week focuses on Henry Purcell. Donald Macleod charts his extraordinary, all-too-short career 4pm @BBCRadio3 or @BBCSounds Producer Sam Phillips www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Summer solstice II Everyone sees visions you too, but will not admit it; they go and assume that they are alone… - George Seferis, transl by Björn Thegeby
Key Changes: @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music with Gillian Moore & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1672: London Calling, 1pm Sat 20 June or listen now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Poetry Please @BBCSounds Gwyneth Lewis, former National Poet of Wales, joins Roger McGough with her selection of listener requests from Edward Thomas & Alun Lewis to Kathryn Bevis & Kathleen Jamie. Produced by Ellie Richold #poetry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Our Composer of the Week is that enigmatic, ubiquitous, time-travelling creator: Anonymous. Donald Macleod celebrates pieces whose authorship has been lost, unrecorded or deliberately obscured. With @lisacolton.bsky.social & @fayhield.bsky.social 4pm @BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Louis XIV of France makes his first appearance as the Sun King… in a 12 hour ballet. Our essential history of classical music, Key Changes, explores the blossoming of this new art form during his reign. 1pm Sat 13 Jun @BBCRadio3 or listen now @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Fulfilled a long-held wish 3 years ago to visit Yeats’ tower. An occasion only slightly marred by my accidentally setting off the fire alarm… And no one could find the off switch for about 10 minutes. I hope his shade can forgive me. Even if the custodians didn’t. Born #otd 1865. stare = starling
Maestro Monteverdi is our Composer of the Week. Kate Molleson traces an extraordinary career from Cremona to Venice, secular to sacred, with music that will make your spirits soar. Producer Ellie Ajao. Each weekday 4pm @BBCRadio3 or any time @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Key Changes @BBCRadio3’s Essential History of Classical Music. Ep 10: Opera’s First Breath with @gillianmoore.bsky.social & @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social 1pm Sat 6 June or listen now @BBCSounds #Monteverdi www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Delighted to announce the two winners of the BBC World Service International Audio Drama Competition 2026, run in conjunction with @britishcouncil.bsky.social They are Idi Nasiru (Nigeria) & Finegan Kruckemeyer (Australia) who received their awards from actor Fiona Shaw www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a...
WW1 officer, BBC director of music & Master of the Queen’s Music - Arthur Bliss is the subject of Composer of the Week each weekday 4pm @BBCRadio3 or any time @BBCSounds. Biographer Paul Spicer joins Donald Macleod to explore his life & music. Producer Luke Whitlock www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...