Tweets about Radio 3's Night Tracks, n years on...

Tweets about Radio 3's Night Tracks, n years on...

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St Cecilia's Day (22 November)

Tweets about Radio 3's Night Tracks, n years on...

The Meaning of Live : Stephen Cleobury, RIP

Today my thoughts are of my darling, wonderful, kind and brilliant husband Stephen, who died three years ago this St Cecilia’s Day. pic.twitter.com/iOJfzyKk9f

— Emma Cleobury 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 (@EmmaCleobury) November 22, 2022

The Essay's just as obviously a recorded programme - @billybragg's Ode to Essex was no more in the studio, live, than A. L. Kennedy with to-night's - as when Night Tracks is next [@BBCRadio3 most weekdays from 11.00 p.m.] :https://t.co/TjpZJ4SJPMhttps://t.co/R6vWD8ABcp

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A qualitative difference, or only in relation to a quantitative one ? :

With intro and closing credits, The Essay's 13-14 mins, and, likewise, the In-Tune Mix-Tape (introduced by Sean or Katie, as the usual @BBCInTune presenters), it's probably circa 29 mins, whereas...

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— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 22, 2022

Mondays to Wednesdays¹, Night Tracks is till 1.00 a.m. - at 2h, a scale that's somehow unlike, say, pre-recorded [or re-broadcast] evening concerts (with an interval, etc.) ?

For some, the trade-off's of curated sequences [not, to start, of this quality] over company... ?

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— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 22, 2022

However, as the voice of @SaraMohrPietsch³ corrected me (at midnight), the programme's on till 12.30 a.m., so 90 mins or 1½ hrs - must've been thinking of Late Junction on a Friday... :)

³ At c. 11.20 p.m., a piece of Mendelssohn was also played for those awake with worries. https://t.co/wFDBepf0HU

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 23, 2022

Those born on that day (in that year), etc., might have other views...https://t.co/UBmFFUICzO https://t.co/5Mh2IN49wq

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 22, 2022

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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. : An accreting series

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. : An accreting series

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11 November

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. : An accreting series

For some, The Great War seemed to end on 11 November 1918

'Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil' [https://t.co/l7SNkEv6UI]

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #1

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Wiki : 'The oldest known oil paintings are Buddhist murals created circa 650 AD. The works are located in cave-like rooms carved from the cliffs of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, "using walnut and poppy seed oils"' [https://t.co/d65VCxBG3Y]

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #2

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'The future's bright', etc. - from 1994 onwards, some of Orange's advertised predictions, prophecies, foresights or guesses about the world and what e-mail, cinema, video-conferencing, text messages would bring...https://t.co/otlfYqNnfA

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #3

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) November 11, 2022

Obviously fearful of any one of them becoming a Tango victim*, they congregate at speed and en masse - as I counted, there are eight or nine of them !

* Or intending, perhaps, this 'tour de force' to frighten others off ? ;)

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #4

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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #5 https://t.co/FhI70VMa5u

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023

'"We are facing new pandemics, economic inflation and increasingly authoritarian governments, who will attempt to crush civil unrest.

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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #6

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023

'"This is a crisis, and it needs a crisis response.

'"I want a safe future, not just for my grandchildren but for all children around the world and the generations to come."'https://t.co/BfZKcN8g3z

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— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023

World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3 :

'Antarctica, currently in its winter, registered anomalously high temperatures.

'Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in the continent's Argentine Islands recently broke its July temperature record with 8.7°C (47.6°F).

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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #7

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Neither of these reports says what picture(s) the jigsaws show, but previous protests, in galleries, have involved one of van Gogh's canvases (Sunflowers) and Constable's The Hay Wain...

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #8 https://t.co/hClD0Mj0r1 pic.twitter.com/QXywPoTsmJ

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 5, 2023

The links of Patel and numerous others honoured by #BadHeadJohnson to petrochemical companies and / or climate-change denial have been pointed out on Twither in recent weeks.

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #9

* Sic.https://t.co/Efhb0ilB0g

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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #10 https://t.co/4mxTZbfWfT pic.twitter.com/6fxTS9HLPl

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 20, 2023

'On Friday, the Wildlife presenter gave the UK’s major political parties an ultimatum to stop sanctioning future licensing of oil and gas or risk losing votes.https://t.co/OVUtIhzRxF

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #11

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— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 5, 2023

'"The government appears to be on the brink of junking a lot of green policies as they use the environment as a political football while they jostle for votes.

'"But it’s not about votes, it’s about life on earth," he said.'

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Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #12

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 18, 2023

French police have arrested two people as part of an investigation after protestors were filmed throwing soup over the Mona Lisa portrait in the Louvre.https://t.co/EAUh4K2tCW

Some Tweets on Oil, Sunflowers, etc. #13

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