When @BBCRadio4 invited me to pick off the weak, I was a little disturbed. Then they called back on a better line and things became much clearer. Join me for the best of the week's radio on Pick of the Week, this Sunday at 6.15pm on Radio 4!
It’s been an adventure and a joy to make this documentary about folk song collector Sidney Robertson Cowell with @RhiannonGiddens and the help of wonderful and generous researchers @AranSongs@SKaskowitz Cathy Hiebert Kerst, Jim Leary and Robert Cochrane: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
That's me, signing the book (with Lorrd Byron's pen), having been inducted this evening as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. I'm happy and proud!
Pressure’s on to make my section of the @EdSciFest panel talk tonight worthy of its 18+ rating. So here is the link to a wonderful programme about rude Gaelic waulking songs. Big thanks to Clare Walker, now @BBCWomansHour producer, who told me about it. bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08…