Adele Armstrong
@adelejarmstrong
BBC Journalist and Producer. Documentaries and talks @bbcradio4 and @bbcworldservice.
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11-10-2011 11:13:10
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Anyone who has a dog (and even some of those who haven't) will love Adam Gopnik's moving tribute to his late Butterscotch on BBC Radio 4 'A Point of View', all done via Carpaccio's St Augustine in His Studio.
As #FreddieMercury ‘s possessions are about to go under the hammer Sotheby's - including his handwritten lyrics to “Bohemian Rhapsody” which could fetch £1.2m - join me this evening BBC Radio 4 BBC Sounds to explore our strange fascination with the belongings of the rich & famous.
My late father, ITN and Times journalist Julian Haviland, features on 'Last Word' BBC Radio 4 today 1600 (repeat Sunday 2030) - please listen! Thanks to producer Gareth Nelson Davies & presenter Matthew Bannister Adele Armstrong Richard Haviland bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Ah quite masterful from alexmassie & BBC Radio 4: moving, tinged with welcome melancholy, upliftingly Scottish. As my late lamented colleague Rev Stuart MacQuarrie once observed to me over a #NewYear single malt—‘Bob, sadly we’re losing even Auld Lang Zen’ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
A Point of View... Caleb Azumah Nelson on why anger is no longer a stranger to him, but a friend. "As I've grown older, the question is not whether I should be angry - but do I love myself enough to be angry, to object when I feel wronged?" 🎧 on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Beyond Bricks and Mortar… Megan Nolan reflects on a generation that believes they'll never own their own home. 🎧 A Point of View on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Two really outstanding series running all this week on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3. Masterclasses in the medium from Carlo Gebler and Monica Whitlock.
Change… Will Self muses on change as he prepares for a stem cell transplant - an operation 'which will result in the greatest change in what has been a notably changeable life.' 🎧 A Point of View on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
A brilliant A Point of View by Sarah Dunant, on BBC Radio 4 this morning: on Tuesday's US debate, Kamala Harris and Trump on women. Here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
In Praise of the Nanny State... With the help of certain Conservative politicians, form number 48879-2039-876/WC and a rabbit hutch, Howard Jacobson takes a wry look at the advantages of a nanny state. 🎧 A Point of View on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
The Coming Storm LIVE in the BBC Radio Theatre! Lucy Proctor and I will be recording Episode 8 with an audience, answering listeners' questions and asking the brilliant Ben Ansell: is democracy screwed? Apply for tickets here: bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/…
My friends — this is quite brilliant from Adam Gopnik on BBC Radio 4. Strikingly interpreting #Trump & #Trumpism through the 1960s optics of Hofstadter’s Paranoid Style & Boorstin’s Cult of Publicity & the Pseudo-event. Isolates so much of our perils bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Back the BBC 📺📻📡📱🔴 BBC BBC Radio 4 Naughtie in his 4 episodes of Naughtie on America is just masterly. A political observer & wordsmith without equal. Thank u Jim so much. Should be required listening b4 5 Nov for all who love the US & love democracy. Go well in these momentous days.
From Herodotus to Mrs Beeton to Keith Floyd… mary beard charts the long history of the Christmas pudding - and the way in which our families cultivate their own, unique festive traditions. 🎧 A Point of View on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
brilliant from Adam Gopnik, on the current US-Canadian crisis. Including the immediacy of that great formulation of Charles Taylor: ‘The most human question is not the isolating question “Who am I?” but the communal question “*Where* am I?”’. BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Sunday mornings on BBC Radio 4 will never be the same. A Point of View, the long running topical essay, is being axed. More now on BBC Feedback
