John Warburton

For any writer/broadcaster/filmmaker, it's vital to know the law. Law is your power—you may need to use it against those who'd silence you.

@OBogcast @StPeterStJames @DSHS_Tweets As recently as 40 years ago.

@OBogcast @StPeterStJames Spent several evening shifts there with an old school friend from the then BBC Transmitter Department (we are @DSHS_Tweets alumni), once even giving radio news legend and ex-Radio Wyvern colleague Howard Hughes a tour of the place.

Two ghosts seen in #Lewes today. From four to zero, in one case. #BBC #LongWave #Covid #Droitwich

@OBogcast Spotted today in my local hospice shop (@StPeterStJames) — still tuned to 198kHz.

@Warblefly Gosh a Sony Dream Machine! Not the Cube, sadly, but one of these fuelled my radio joy throughout most of my school and university life.

@carolinefrmus 🥰

Amateur pianist corner, work in progress: #Albéniz El Puerto (Ibéria). It’s hard: I’m at the ‘hands together and trying not to get them tangled up’ stage

@carolinefrmus Must try this. Debussy's Sarabande from "Pour le piano" is already in my hands and I wonder if there are threads between them 🎼

#Satie opening of Sarabande no 2 (1887). Impossible to overstate how very very odd this is, and yet it works

@BernadetteEakin Definitely hearing that. 𝄢 𝄡

@Warblefly It's one of the best hymn tunes. I think about how i would orchestrate it. Cellos and DB on the tune from the c+ bit, slow build up of Timpani...

Not a dry eye in the house. All stops out for the final hymn. Beautiful C major big bass chord half way through... #SpouseofTheHolySpirit #GreattoPedals #Bourdon16ft #Pentecost2026

@classicjacko @armslengthal Bidding war. Cooking tea, here, to wall-to-wall Palestrina. (Only joking. But wouldn't it be great if the owner, if selling, donated to a music charity?)

A mate of mine sent me this, and asked if it’s my car. It’s not (yet…) but if the owner is selling, I’m all ears!

@carolinefrmus You now have the evidence. The enigma of the augmented fourths / diminished fifths reflects the mystery of the faith.

Erik #Satie, born 17 May 1866, photographed by Man Ray. Eternally fascinating and fundamentally unknowable. Also I REALLY want to know if organist John @Warblefly managed to sneak Vexations into a church service this morning

@carolinefrmus It'll be the local equivalent of "Le Banquet Céleste" but easier to bring to a close when the half-time drinks 'n' nibbles are all gone. 🍞🍷

@Warblefly I can’t say how much I like this idea!

Taking a break after listening to 427-471: after a vexatious week, it’s been oddly comforting to listen to the repetitions. Likely to end around 3 am…

@AlexaCoghlan It was emphatic and jolly noisy. Dog needed comforting. Reminded me to rejoin the Simon de Montfort Society whose annual dinner I enjoyed in Evesham as recently as 1988. simondemontfort.org/talks-events/ #Lewes

Email of the day…

@jademclean75 @SouthernRailUK Phenomenal. And we are, what, ten years without even a tea trolley on these expensive services?

It’s just taken my brother 5 hours to get home from Brighton to South Wimbledon on @SouthernRailUK What an absolute joke.

@sophiearumble Essential.

@MannGeorgia @ivanhewett @sowetokinch Putting your opinions and contributions into my microphones and live streams, @ivanhewett, was and always will be an opportunity I shall not miss: but my radio at home is permanently—pleasurably—tuned to @BBCRadio3. Let's always keep the debate honest and full of wonderful music.

My thanks to @ivanhewett & @Telegraph for this image in which it looks as if Joyce Grenfell is about to take me out with her umbrella and @sowetokinch is looking for the nearest escape route! This one’s going on my wall!

New broadcast time signals to cover the UK, to provide further resilience? Government press release, issued a few moments ago. "Cutting-edge timing technology to protect vital services" - gov.uk/government/new… #radio #time #chronometry #MSF

Saturday 7 March 2026, 19:30 All Saints Centre, Friars Walk, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 John Ireland: A Downland Suite Musicians of All Saints Supported by the John Ireland Trust musiciansofallsaints.co.uk/events

@carolinefrmus Oh! Up a crazy tone only four bars later! As you say, "WTF".

@carolinefrmus You've doubtless analysed it yourself: though, if I needed to memorize it in a hurry, I'd think C#⁷sus4. Isn't it great?

Amateur pianist corner: #Scarlatti K215. I’ve had Kirkpatrick vol 1 for years but have never played it before! Like it, especially the crunchy chord/WTF is that sequences opening the B section