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@arthistorynews Excellent news. Now all we need is Britain’s Lost Masterpieces to return.

The world's most indispensable arts podcast is back, with a new episode on all your usual platforms. Another one out tomorrow, then weekly.

@JANUSZCZAK @philipmould Oh excellent, I’ve only just finished the last series.

I'm back soon with the baron of the Borders. We'll talk art and farms. And Bendy will tell us about the sleepers he's found lurking in the catalogues of art! In the words of @philipmould "This is the best podcast on the airwaves about art. Bendor Grosvenor - I salute you!"

@nedboulting Bon courage.

@itvcycling @nedboulting @millarmind Me again. Name rhymes with Madame Tussaud. How much of the soundtrack is ‘augmented’ by French TV? Church bells probably, cows mooing maybe. Anything else?

LAST CHANCE to get your questions answered by @nedboulting and @millarmind for our final EVER weekend 👇 (Ask below)

@itvcycling @nedboulting @millarmind Thanks. I’ll check it out after today’s stage.

@SteveBarraud @nedboulting @millarmind Hi Steve, your question was answered on yesterday's show youtube.com/watch?v=EK67BP…

Get your questions in for @nedboulting and @millarmind for our LIVE Q&A after the stage

@itvcycling How does the caravan get from one stage to another? Do they trundle along the autoroutes or are they transported on lorries?

"We became attached at the hip, we did everything together, we didn't realise it" Phil Liggett on Paul Sherwen, and David Saunders.

@chrishawtree I often cycle through the inspiration for it, now on the Bristol to Bath cycle path. Still spooky at night.

To the Barn Theatre in Southwick for the opening of its production of Arnold Ridley's The Ghost Train which I had only seen as the 1941 film and as inspiration for Will Hay's Oh! Mr Porter (1937). The 1925 play has its own brio: it speeds up, rather like a train. A great time.

@arthistorynews Done

So, the arts are being cut. Ofcom has given up the arts quota. And the BBC survey about future programming doesn't mention it. You can complete the survey here. Please write 'keep art on the telly' in the 'anything else you want to tell us' box! END. bbc.co.uk/send/u193491675

Ping! An email from the BBC Director General himself, Tim Davie. He wants my opinion* on the Future of the BBC. 'Aha, I think, a chance to say; 'put the arts back on TV!' But alas... 1/🧵 *(Not just mine, it's a mass email).

@RevRichardColes If you go east, you’ll find Cameron McIntosh‘s house and a boat shaped like a whale

@annemcelvoy Charnt all my life. As in plaincharnt

Settle the kitchen feud : is “Chant” (as in football) a short nobody “a” even if you’re a Southerner? Surely no one says “charnt” outside the Royal Family?

@EvanDawson_UK @WelshNatOpera @theCentre @nickythespence A wonderful evening. Loved it all.

A desperately moving and breathtakingly ambitious premiere performance of Britten’s Peter Grimes by @WelshNatOpera last night at @theCentre staring @nickythespence. I was so lucky to be there. #WNOgrimes

@DanNeidle @ContractorCalc Liked your item on More or Less

@ContractorCalc take a look at the people working for the wealth tax campaigns. It's all PR people. No tax specialists. No economists. It's a political campaign, not an attempt to change the law.

WEALTH TAXES: Chancellor implies they are not going to happen. TSC - 2 days ago. Chancellor clearly prepped ready for the question. It's a classic example of how to say you won't put in a Wealth Tax without saying you won't put in a Wealth Tax. As far as she's concerned, she has already raised taxes on the Wealthy. The Wealth Tax campaigners are currently empty handed, making noise, but turned up to the party with no draft Wealth Tax legislation. As an experienced tax campaigner, who has had success, that is a massive schoolboy error. The hardest bit in campaigning is making noise and getting an audience. Then you plonk the solution on the table. To do the hard bit, and then have nothing in the locker, is frankly absurd. @DanielPriestley @garyseconomics

@beardedjourno Was there another prison apart from Horfield?

Can anyone identify these buildings in Bristol?

@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 Sorry had to go and find the drum and bass Vivaldi

It's a gigantic Playlister @BBCRadio3 Where might we head from the Giant's Motif from Wagner's Das Rheingold? This is the bit where giant brothers Fasolt and Faffner demand Wotan's sister in law as payment for the building work they've done...

@arthistorynews Come to Bristol! Love the book.

I’ll be speaking at Trinity College, Oxford tonight. All welcome, students free!

@HighlandHistory @UndisScot @hlhlibraries Still a pleasant place to cycle to and sit in the sun.

North Kessock, c1920s [source: @hlhlibraries]

@carla_denyer Excellent

Yesterday President Donald Trump made comments amounting to the threat of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. I’ve written to the Foreign Secretary calling on him to summon the US Ambassador and make clear how unacceptable these proposals are.

@MrTimDunn @RadioTimes @JoshSwetnam @robdersley A wonderful series. Did you ever do Oslo ? Google says no. Anyway we enjoyed our visit there last week and deployed our inner Tim Dunn.

7pm tonight on BBC FOUR: #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt Series 1 Episode 1! @RadioTimes made it Choice of the Day back in 2020; they’ve done it again today! This review isn’t for me: it’s a team game: so it’s for Lucy Bailey, @JoshSwetnam @robdersley, all at what was @brownbobprod; and all who are listed in the credits. I hope if anyone watches it tonight it brings you joy, and shines a light on the remarkable places that we love. Next episode tomorrow, 7pm BBC Four; and it’ll be on iPlayer too.

@cyclingweekly Absolutely. A terrible shame.

This might sound hyperbolic, but with the Tour de France also disappearing from ITV, it feels like a golden era is over cyclingweekly.com/racing/eurospo…