I work for the BBC (Radio 3 and World Service), play the piano and organ and love fado and all things Portuguese.

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 šŸ“»šŸ‡µšŸ‡¹bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhf…
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good morning from ⁦@durhamcathedral⁩ ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩ Breakfast
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19 May 2024
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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17 May 2024
Happy Birthday Taj MahalšŸŽ‚šŸŽ‰(Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr.) w/ Tedeschi & Trucks band backstage #bluesjam #bluesharp
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19 May 2024
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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28 Apr 2024
Sugar Pie Desanto at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1964. šŸŽ¶'Rock Me Baby'
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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 ā€˜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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Happy #Caturday

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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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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 šŸ“»šŸ‡µšŸ‡¹bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhf…
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19 Apr 2024
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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Joey DeFrancesco performing ā€œRing a Dingā€ live at the 2020 NAMM Show.
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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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Very early Electric Light Orchestra ELO
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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 ā€˜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 ā€˜Nothing’. His officials expected our plane to be shot down. images.app.goo.gl/NH2otqrs27…

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