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Bloomsbury Radio live from Bloomsbury Festival 2023 | Friday 13 – Sunday 22 October

Tune in to Bloomsbury Radio from Friday 13 – Sunday 22 October to hear live coverage of Bloomsbury Festival!

Now in its 17th year, Bloomsbury Festival is a celebration of our historic Central London neighbourhood. Bringing a creative explosion of arts, culture and science for ten days each October, the streets, parks, museums, galleries, laboratories and public and private buildings of our vibrant cultural quarter play host to over 100 events throughout the festival.

Academic institutions, businesses, cultural organisations and diverse communities of Bloomsbury all come together to explore how this small corner of London has been a catalyst for ideas that have had an impact across the world. Bloomsbury Festival celebrates contemporary Bloomsbury; a hotbed of creativity and pioneering development which has one of the youngest and most diverse populations in the country.

As the official radio partner of the festival, Bloomsbury Radio will be broadcasting extensively from across Bloomsbury throughout the 2023 festival. Tune in to hear live performances, interviews with performers and festival organisers, as well as coverage from around Bloomsbury.

You can check out the full Bloomsbury Radio line-up below, the schedule is interspersed with live reports and live music throughout the day.

Friday 13 October | Day 1

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Live Launch with special guests, live studio performances and live reports from  Bloomsbury plus Jessica Rachid on Oils.

4pm

Tamera Heron on Caribbean Folklore, Cold Islanders, plus Simona Di Martino on Growing Up with Witch Powers.

5pm

Healing Connections with Naila Dunleavy plus Rebecca Gordon on Encouraging Healthy Growth and Why Education Matters.

6pm

Amber Fabian and Mark Malcomson on City Lit- Mental Wealth Festival and Bloomsbury Festival, plus Ella Philips on Workshops, “Time To Grow”.

7pm

Charlotte Jane Kennedy and Frasier Hickland on The Four Seasons, plus Ellika McAuley on Peter Pan-Family Adventure Walk.

8pm

Stand Up Comedy meets classical piano with Aida Lahlou and Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Jazz Orient with live studio performances.

9pm

Rey Camoy and Universal Language of Body- tarinainanika Theatre, with Tania Nanika, live from Japan plus Robin Spencer on Urban Greening.

Saturday 14 October | Day 2

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Second Picture Of Dorian Gray and Language Is A Skin with Vyte Garriga plus in conversation with the New Bloomsbury Set.

4pm

Growing In Love- Exploring Folk Romance of The Indus with Faheem Hussain plus Rowenna Mortimer, New Wave Theatre, The Morphea.

5pm

New Wave: Piano Works of Serbian Contemporary Composers, with Ana Bursac plus performance, and Emily Momoh on Camden Black British History.

6pm

Ricercare with Victor Braojos plus performance and The New Bloomsbury Set.

7pm

Zhanna Macmillen on The Legendary Women of Bloomsbury plus Robin Spencer
on Urban Greening.

8pm

If Walls Could Sing with Rosie Carlisle and Fiona Rule plus Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John.

9pm

Camden Libraries with Abul Kashim, plus Ella Philips on Workshops, “Time To Grow”.

Sunday 15 October | Day 3

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

26 Plants, John Simmons, Kaye Brennan, Max Parfitt, Jacob Sam-La Rose, and Margaret Kenna.

4pm

New Wave: How To Run Away plus Belly Dance Workshop with Lucy Andrina and Betty Chequers and Rey Camoy, Universal Language of Body- tarinainanika Theatre, with Tania Nanika, live from Japan.

5pm

Giant Folk with Rowan Flack plus performance and Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John.

6pm

In conversation with the New Bloomsbury Set.

7pm

New Wave Radio Drama: Petrichor by Theo Hristov. Produced as a radio play by Bloomsbury Radio.

8pm

Alison Ohta from The Royal Asiatic Society plus Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe.

9pm

Picasso In Bloomsbury with Anthony D Padgett plus New Wave: How To Run Away and Belly Dance Workshop with Lucy Andrina and Betty Chequers.

Monday 16 October | Day 4

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Phoenix with Helen Percival plus live performance and Giuseppe Mario Urso, A Room Of One’s Own.

4pm

Who Were The Bloomsbury Group with Darren Clarke and Nino Strachey? Plus Ella Philips on Workshops, “Time To Grow”.

5pm

Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe plus Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.

6pm

Behind the scenes with New Eyes From Stem Cells, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and NIHR Moorefields Biomedical Research Centre, plus Jessica Rachid on Oils.

7pm

Bloomsbury Book Crawl with Bex Hughes plus Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John and Emily Momoh on Camden Balack British History.

8pm

Oils by Jessica Rachid. Winner of Bloomsbury Radio’s New Wave Radio Play Competition 2023, plus Abul Kashim on Camden Libraries.

9pm

Finegan Viscardi with Robert Finegan and Tara Viscardi plus an exclusive live studio performance and Alison Ohta from The Royal Asiatic Society.

Tuesday 17 October | Day 5

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

The Bright, The Gifted and The Fearless with Penny Burns plus Behind the scenes with New Eyes From Stem Cells, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre.

4pm

26 Plants, John Simmons, Kaye Brennan, Max Parfitt, Jacob Sam-La Rose, and Margaret Kenna.

5pm

Blue Light Kast Art Association, in conversation with Antonio Rivas and Abul Kashim on Camden Libraries.

6pm

In conversation with Inua Ellams and Fuel Present plus Amber Fabian and Mark Malcomson on City Lit- Mental Wealth Festival and Bloomsbury Festival.

7pm

Poetry’s Circle of Growth, Dark Angels with John Simmons, Therese Kieran and Tim Rich plus live poetry performances plus Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John.

8pm

Life Lines, Poetry, Dance and Music with Jean Woollard and Nick Murray plus in conversation with The New Bloomsbury Set.

9pm

Sonic Exploration with Michelle Hromin plus Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Jazz Orient with live studio performances.

Wednesday 18 October | Day 6

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Phillipa Hyde on A Music Party At Montagu House Bloomsbury Baroque plus in conversation with The New Bloomsbury Set.

4pm

Margaret Kenna, poet in residence plus Rowan Flack on Giant Folk and
performance and Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.

5pm

Poetry’s Circle of Growth, Dark Angels with John Simmons, Therese Kieran and
Tim Rich plus live poetry performances and Emily Momoh on Camden Black British
History.

6pm

Michelle Penn on Seed Corrupted Poetry plus Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe.

7pm

Bloom with Daniella Sicari plus Young Voices At Bloomsbury with Paul Salt and Kat Haylett.

8pm

A Room Of One’s Own with Giuseppe Mario Urso plus Amber Fabian and Mark
Malcomson on City Lit- Mental Wealth Festival and Bloomsbury Festival.

9pm

Poetry and Music Evening with Alisa Oleva plus Robert Finegan and Tara Viscardi on their new EP and live studio performance.

Thursday 19 October | Day 7

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Noel Datta on her role in The Life Of Meena Kumari, Bollywood Star plus Emily Momah on Camden Black British History.

4pm

Elena Paolini on Bloomsbury’s Women Medical Pioneers and Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John plus Nicola Parry on The London Welsh
Centre.

5pm

Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Jazz Orient, live studio performances plus The New Bloomsbury Set.

6pm

Histoire Du Tango with Emma Lucia Reyes and Carlos Cisneros plus Paris Chapters with Robert Finegan and Clara Barbier and live studio performance.

7pm

Behind the scenes with New Eyes From Stem Cells, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and NIHR Moorefields Biomedical Research Centre, plus Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe.

8pm

Nino Strachey on Young Bloomsbury, A New Queer History plus Franciso Diego
and Paradise Planet Earth.

9pm

Marianne Nichols on the Hidden History of The Foundling Hospital plus Young Voices At Bloomsbury with Paul Salt and Kat Haylett.

Friday 20 October | Day 8

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Lisa Azarmi and An Apothecary Of Art plus A Room of One’s Own with Giuseppe Mario Urso and Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.

4pm

The Two Headed Bird with Rez Kabir plus Franciso Diego and Paradise Planet Earth.

5pm

Donald MacKenzie and The Bloomsbury Beast Pipe Organ, Silent Film Double Bill plus The New Bloomsbury Set.

6pm

Aida Lahlou and Mirrors plus Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe.

7pm

New Wave: How To Run Away and the Belly dance Workshop with Lucy Andrina and Betty Chequers plus Poetry’s Circle of Growth, Dark Angels with John Simmons.

8pm

From Downland To Britten plus performance with Duo Fabulae and Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John.

9pm

New Wave Radio Drama: Petrichor by Theo Hristov. Produced as a radio play by Bloomsbury Radio.

Saturday 21 October | Day 9

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Paris Chapters with Robert Finegan and Clara Barbier plus live studio performance and Emily Momoh on Camden Balck British History.

4pm

Karen Wong and Lance Mok live in the studio, and Histoire Du Tango with Emma Lucia Reyes and Carlos Cisneros plus Margaret Kenna, Poet In Residence.

5pm

Alec Forshaw chats From Fields To Faculties and Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.

6pm

Franciso Diego with Paradise Planet Earth and The New Bloomsbury Set.

7pm

Bloomsbury Book Crawl with Bex Hughes plus Emily Momoh on Camden Black British History.

8pm

In conversation with the New Bloomsbury Set and Robin Spencer on Urban Greening.

9pm

Oils by Jessica Rachid. Winner of Bloomsbury Radio’s New Wave Radio Competition 2022 produced by Bloomsbury Radio and Ella Philips on Workshops, “Time
To Grow”.

Sunday 22 October | Day 10

8.30am

Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.

3pm

Paradise Planet Earth with Franciso Diego and A Room Of One’s Own with Giuseppe Mario Urso.

4pm

Emily Momoh on Camden Black British History plus Paris Chapters with Robert Finegan and Clara Barbier and live studio performance.

5pm

From Downland To Britten with Duo Fabulae plus Alison Ohta from The Royal Asiatic Society.

6pm

New Wave Radio Drama: Petrichor by Theo Hristov. Produced as a radio play by Bloomsbury Radio.

7pm

In conversation with the new Bloomsbury Set and Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.

8pm – 9pm

Listeners’ choice. A retrospective listen to previous interviews as chosen by you the listener.

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