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On the cusp of WWII, in 1938, my grandfather Charles W. Bridgen shot a film of his journey to revisit the Northern Front - tanks rust in cornfields, memorials gleam white, the oak crosses of his fallen friends are still green. The full film is on Youtube here:

Extraordinary testimony from Professor Mamode before a UK parliamentary committee. “Deliberate choices” made to prevent medical aid from being allowed in.

From Jakarta to Toronto to North Uist readers joined the global bookclub with Harriett Gilbert to ask their questions about #ShuggieBain to Douglas Stuart. Listen on BBC World Service from 7 December...

Half the nightingales in Bedfordshire now sing in this 377 acre patch of scrubland...

BBC World Book Cafe in Olso. octavia bright gets to know the Norwegian books world through it's writers Maja Lunde, Zeshan Shakar, Gunnhild Øyehaug and Oliver Lovrenski. To come along register here.litteraturhuset.no/en/arrangement… NORLA Norwegian Literature Abroad #NorwegianLit #norwegianliterature

You've still got a little time to send YOUR question to #AnneHolt about her book #1,222 DM us here or [email protected] #CrimeFiction #norwegianliterature

“You closed any more hospital?” “Not in your patch - but good to see you on neutral ground” John Prescott and Ken Clarke discuss jazz at Ronnie Scott’s via Angus Colwell

Very proud that my story 'The Boys on the Bridge' is in here, along with 11 other incredible stories - I can't wait to read them all (especially Tanya's winning story!) and to meet everyone at the launch on Wednesday. Diolch yn fawr Elaine Canning Rebecca F. John @parthianbooks

Exciting if a little elegiac to be in Oslo for my last recordings for BBC World Book Club and #bbcworldbookcafe. So impressed at the value placed on literature and writers here! Come if you can and if you can’t do listen in January. litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangement…

I'm playing with Fulham Big Band from 7.30 pm on Tuesday 10th Dec in the lobby of Charing Cross and Westminster Hospital. Free but we will be raising money for the hospital charity.

On his last day of In Tune, here’s my photo for today. ❤️ you Sean! Join us ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ @ 9.30 for Gounod’s Waltz from Faust, the Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, Liszt’s La Campanella & in the Playlister it’s Channel Crossing by Elizabeth Lutyens ⛴️

Patriot by Alexei #Navalny, read by Benedict Cumberbatch 11.45am Mon-Fri BBC Radio 4 Translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel, abridged by Richard Hamilton & produced by Elizabeth Allard #Russia bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

FYI: He’s a pediatric consultant.

lsraeli warplanes launch a series of heavy air attacks all over Gaza.

If I could read Helen Garner all day every day, I’d regard it as a life well-lived. I revere all her writing, but it’s her non-fiction I return to most and, to distil it further, for me it’s her diaries that show her to be the absolute killer writer that she is. I think it was

Granta mourns Mario Vargas Llosa. In memory of his life and work, we have lifted the paywall on all of his writing for the magazine, from his fiction to his account of running for the presidency of Peru.

I don't think anyone needs persuading that cutting down the stunning Whitewebb's oak tree was an atrocious environmental crime. But here is Russell Miller russell miller showing us exactly why. #whitewebbsoak Paul Powlesland Mitchells & Butlers Enfield Council Toby Carvery Tottenham Hotspur

Thank you, thank you, thank you Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan for your courage, passion and eloquence. Watch EVERY MINUTE of this extraordinary interview about the grotesque murder of 9 siblings in Gaza. I just don't know how she holds it together. /1