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The grass will grow back

I’ve been thinking a lot about trust in recent weeks. Largely because a situation has arisen which has demanded I examine the way in which I struggle to trust.

A walk in the parched Greenwich Park where only shaded parts of the Flower Garden sees green grass — a quaint nostalgic sight amidst a drought — trigger thinking.

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Future Proms? Fewer international orchestras but big chorus stuff protected (for now) apparently

Last week’s Feedback on Radio 4 (6 August 2026) – a comparatively toothless affair since Roger Bolton’s departure a few years back – features Radio 3 Controller and Proms Director Sam Jackson, who we learn doesn’t think that the cuts necessary to the Proms in light of th...


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In a week of unrest in a Norfolk town, a fiftieth-anniversary memory, and the difference between reaching for reconciliation and being ready for it.

ASYLUM SEEKERS have been removed by police from their homes in Thetford for their own safety in light of protest, unrest, and threatening behaviour this past week.

That the unrest...


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Core Radio 3 is down on its previous quarter, though its ‘brand extension’ sees a modest increase.

This week’s BBC press release about the recent RAJAR figures calls Radio 3’s most recently reported quarter “impressive,” pointing to a combined ‘brand’ figure of 2.24 million listeners that includes Radio 3 Unwind. The core network, Radio 3, secured 1.88 million list...


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Nadia Boulanger’s Fantasy for piano and orchestra is an interesting demonstration, and Rachmaninov’s second symphony a solid read.

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Ravel orch. Colin Matthews Le vallee des cloches
Nadia Boulanger Fantasy for piano and orchestra
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2 in E minor

Alexandra Dariescus (piano)


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