I work for the BBC (Radio 3 and World Service), play the piano and organ and love fado and all things Portuguese.
London, Scotland and Portugal
Joined August 2014
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I had the pleasure of making a documentary for @BBCRadio4 with @jonsnowC4 on Portugal's Carnation Revolution of 25th April 1974. It's the 50th anniversary now, and what a story it is. Listen in at 13:30 on Sunday or anytime after 📻🇵🇹bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhf…
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100 years ago tonight the BBC broadcast the first of Beatrice Harrison’s cello and nightingale recitals. At 2.45pm @BBCRadio4 broadcasts Singing with the Nightgales, which @samleesong and I made, in which he sings songs about nightingales to and with them. 1/2
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Happy Birthday Taj Mahal🎂🎉(Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr.) w/ Tedeschi & Trucks band backstage #bluesjam #bluesharp
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It’s time to hand in my body armour after 30+ years covering conflict for the BBC. How have our ways of surviving on the battlefield evolved? Here’s a bumper 🧵
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Morning @BBCRadio3 Breakfasters. There’s something of a detective theme to begin today… & why not?! It’s prompted by composer Geoffrey Bush’s interest in detective fiction & fuelled by fragments of a lost serenade by Buxtehude. Intrigued? Join us! All sorts to uncover today.
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There is so much more I could have said .. Uzbekistan is where Ulugh Beg’s observatory was mapping stars in the 15th century, and the native region of the man from whom we get the word ‘algorithm’. But mainly this is about travels with my mother!
Beautiful piece from @MishalHusain about a place i've always wanted to visit
theguardian.com/travel/2024/…
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Scottish poetry in Lisbon. From the first to the second renaissance, from Burns to MacDiarmid
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Tuesday's Breakfast is live @BBCRadio3 Today Art Tatum plays the piano, night and day;
Max Reger makes a journey in peace and joy; April Cantelo considers the soft flowing Avon and Tabea Zimmerman helps make up a six for Brahms. We are live until 0930.
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It's 50 years since I reported for @LBC on Portugal's Carnation Revolution. This Sunday, I'm on @BBCRadio4 at 13:30 recalling the events of April 1974 - tune in, it's a great listen! instagram.com/p/C58Cj9qMR_8/ @KnightAyton
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Breakfast is live until 9.30 @BBCRadio3 We dream with pioneering Portuguese composer Berta Alves De Sousa & celebrate Spring in Lisbon with Fado star Amalia Rodrigues; Schubert x 2 w/Matthias Goerne & B’Rock, and a call to prayer from C18 Ukrainian composer Maksym Berezovksy.
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A long time in the making… 30 years to be exact
My return to #Rwanda and the stories and journey the country and her people have been through are all laid bare in this documentary
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hm1sb…
On BBC platforms; shortly on @bbcworldservice. Tomorrow on @BBCRadio4
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From the Archives Thursday:
The Wynton Marsalis Septet performing "In This House, On This Morning" live in Munich, Germany (July 22, 1992).
wyntonmarsalis.org/discograp…
Personnel:
Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
Wycliffe Gordon, trombone
Wess 'Warmdaddy' Anderson, alto sax
Todd Williams, tenor sax
Eric Reed, piano
Reginald Veal, bass
Herlin Riley, drums
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Made this for @BBCRadio3 with Olivia Giovetti all about George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue - which turns 100 tomorrow! Stories behind the piece, its legacy and casually asking ‘what even is American music’ in 43 and a half minutes. Up on @BBCSounds now! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001w1…
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On this day in 1979 I tried to interview Ayatollah Khomeini on his flight from Paris to Tehran to overthrow the Shah. He wouldn’t speak to me. When someone else asked what he felt, he replied ‘Nothing’. His officials expected our plane to be shot down. images.app.goo.gl/NH2otqrs27…