John Shea
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Pianist, @BBCRadio3 presenter, @BBCWorldService newsreader, @GirtonCollege @CamUniMusic @RoyalAcadMusic alumnus 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 🎹 📻 🌍🚆🎭📚 🏊🏻♂️
London, UK
Joined March 2012
Let’s hear it for 25 years of @BBCRadio3 Through the Night! We’re a quarter of a century old on 5th May. Thank you @radiotimes for publishing my account of the programme I’ve co-presented for 19 of those years. And if you haven’t already discovered us... https://t.co/aiaPykjmtu
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Thanks to @billicritic for this great piece about Ma. She'd have loved it
theguardian.com
The actor best known as TV’s Sybil Fawlty dazzled over five decades on stage, in roles from from Shakespeare to Alan Bennett
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We are so sad to hear of the death of Prunella Scales. Prunella appeared at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre near the beginning of her career in the mid 1950s, with roles including Juliet in Measure for Measure, and Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice.
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Ted Huffman nommé directeur général du @festival_aix. À 48 ans, le metteur en scène américain est un habitué d'Aix-en-Provence. Il succèdera à la tête du festival à Pierre Audi, décédé brutalement en mai dernier à l'âge de 67 ans. https://t.co/9BxTFposXY
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The writer and stage director Ted Huffman has been named the next general director of the @festival_aix Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. Succeeding Pierre Audi, who died suddenly in May, Huffman will take up his post on 1 January 2026.
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The Prime Minister is my guest on Private Passions at noon today @BBCRadio3. He chooses Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Shostakovich and discusses family life, music in schools, artists touring EU and AI/copyright.
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The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer shares why he believes playing music gives you the skills for life – something that came from his own experience playing flute, piano, recorder, and violin in his youth. Sir Keir talks to Michael Berkeley about music education, family and the
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It is a little known fact that tonight's clock re-adjustment was pioneered by German-British artist Frank Auerbach, to the great dismay of the proponent of the original change, politician Konrad Adenauer
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This Saturday, visit the Palace of Holyrood House as I chart 400 years of @RCT @BBCRadio3. I find some of Mary Queen of Scots’ handiwork. Charles II makes a very dramatic entrance and I study more than 90 portraits of the same nose, as our man at the scene explains.
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My article in The Times today, telling the tale of our family summer holiday to Kusadasi by train (includes a quote from Eurostar’s train manager Blake!): https://t.co/bciiG5Rzit
thetimes.com
Mark Smith, the voice of rail travel website The Man in Seat 61, gathers his family and takes the scenic route to the Turquoise Coast via Prague, Budapest and more
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Around 250 people are eligible to vote at a house in Coolmoyne, and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone https://t.co/VdWAW6HutU
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In Tipperary, the home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station.
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It's my last @bbcradio3 Sound of Cinema tomorrow, and I will be saying a proper goodbye. So tomorrow's show is an argument for the intellectual depth and richness of the film music, and how it should never be treated like wallpaper.
bbc.co.uk
Matthew Sweet's weekly look at music for the screen.
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@BBCRadio3 @EBU_HQ @BBCSounds .@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Schumann & Shostakovich from Barcelona 🇪🇸 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. https://t.co/R0RBoN8mzy
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@BBCRadio3 @EBU_HQ @BBCSounds .@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Jakub Józef Orliński & Il Pomo d’Oro at the 2024 @bbcproms 🇬🇧 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. https://t.co/wyO3X2Q8x7.
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📸✈️Today’s instantly iconic photo of Hungary’s opposition rally on the anniversary of the 1956 anti-Soviet revolution was taken by a passenger on a Frankfurt–Budapest @Ryanair flight. You can see Budapest's Heroes’ Square and Andrássy Avenue packed with around 160,000 people.
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@BBCRadio3 @EBU_HQ @BBCSounds .@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Jakub Józef Orliński & Il Pomo d’Oro at the 2024 @bbcproms 🇬🇧 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. https://t.co/wyO3X2Q8x7.
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Germany’s new government has pledged tens of billions to finally fix chronic decay and delays at the country’s national railway, the Deutsche Bahn. While they wait — and wait, and wait — Germans are having a laugh at the Bahn’s expense.
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Germany’s new government has pledged tens of billions to finally fix chronic decay and delays at the country’s national railway, the Deutsche Bahn. While they wait — and wait, and wait — Germans are...
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@BBCRadio3 @EBU_HQ @BBCSounds .@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Strauss, Sommer & Schumann chamber music from Lucerne 🇨🇭 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. https://t.co/XiDp9eTfnp
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📢Listen Back: Newly appointed UK Ambassador to Ireland @karaowen joined @olivercallan to share her vision for the role and why she’s excited to get started. ⬇️ https://t.co/dDN3xEbH3e
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@BBCRadio3 @EBU_HQ @BBCSounds .@BBCRadio3 Through the Night: six hours of @EBU_HQ concerts & recordings, starting tonight with Strauss, Sommer & Schumann chamber music from Lucerne 🇨🇭 Listen at 00.30 or here @BBCSounds (UK) any time for 30 days afterwards. https://t.co/XiDp9eTfnp
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