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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19 Apr 2024
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 š»šµš¹bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhfā¦
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25 Jul 2024
good morning from ā¦@durhamcathedralā© ā¦@BBCRadio3ā© Breakfast
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19 May 2024
100 years ago tonight the BBC broadcast the first of Beatrice Harrisonās cello and nightingale recitals. At 2.45pm ā¦@BBCRadio4ā© broadcasts Singing with the Nightgales, which ā¦@samleesongā© 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 Mahalšš(Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr.) w/ Tedeschi & Trucks band backstage #bluesjam #bluesharp
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19 May 2024
Itās 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? Hereās a bumper š§µ
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8 May 2024
Morning @BBCRadio3 Breakfasters. Thereās something of a detective theme to begin todayā¦ & why not?! Itās prompted by composer Geoffrey Bushās 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. š¶'Rock Me Baby'
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27 Apr 2024
There is so much more I could have said .. Uzbekistan is where Ulugh Begās observatory was mapping stars in the 15th century, and the native region of the man from whom we get the word āalgorithmā. But mainly this is about travels with my mother!
27 Apr 2024
Beautiful piece from @MishalHusain about a place i've always wanted to visit
theguardian.com/travel/2024/ā¦
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23 Apr 2024
Scottish poetry in Lisbon. From the first to the second renaissance, from Burns to MacDiarmid
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23 Apr 2024
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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19 Apr 2024
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 š»šµš¹bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yhfā¦
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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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10 Apr 2024
Joey DeFrancesco performing āRing a Dingā live at the 2020 NAMM Show.
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3 Apr 2024
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 & BāRock, and a call to prayer from C18 Ukrainian composer Maksym Berezovksy.
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30 Mar 2024
A long time in the makingā¦ 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/p0hm1sbā¦
On BBC platforms; shortly on @bbcworldservice. Tomorrow on @BBCRadio4
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22 Feb 2024
From the Archives Thursday:
The Wynton Marsalis Septet performing "In This House, On This Morning" live in Munich, Germany (July 22, 1992).
wyntonmarsalis.org/discograpā¦
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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11 Feb 2024
Made this for @BBCRadio3 with Olivia Giovetti all about George Gershwinās Rhapsody in Blue - which turns 100 tomorrow! Stories behind the piece, its legacy and casually asking āwhat even is American musicā in 43 and a half minutes. Up on @BBCSounds now! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001w1ā¦
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1 Feb 2024
On this day in 1979 I tried to interview Ayatollah Khomeini on his flight from Paris to Tehran to overthrow the Shah. He wouldnāt speak to me. When someone else asked what he felt, he replied āNothingā. His officials expected our plane to be shot down. images.app.goo.gl/NH2otqrs27ā¦
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