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.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
Live Launch with special guests, live studio performances and live reports from Bloomsbury plus Jessica Rachid on Oils.
Tamera Heron on Caribbean Folklore, Cold Islanders, plus Simona Di Martino on Growing Up with Witch Powers.
Healing Connections with Naila Dunleavy plus Rebecca Gordon on Encouraging Healthy Growth and Why Education Matters.
Amber Fabian and Mark Malcomson on City Lit- Mental Wealth Festival and Bloomsbury Festival, plus Ella Philips on Workshops, “Time To Grow”.
Charlotte Jane Kennedy and Frasier Hickland on The Four Seasons, plus Ellika McAuley on Peter Pan-Family Adventure Walk.
Stand Up Comedy meets classical piano with Aida Lahlou and Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Jazz Orient with live studio performances.
Rey Camoy and Universal Language of Body- tarinainanika Theatre, with Tania Nanika, live from Japan plus Robin Spencer on Urban Greening.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
Second Picture Of Dorian Gray and Language Is A Skin with Vyte Garriga plus in conversation with the New Bloomsbury Set.
Growing In Love- Exploring Folk Romance of The Indus with Faheem Hussain plus Rowenna Mortimer, New Wave Theatre, The Morphea.
New Wave: Piano Works of Serbian Contemporary Composers, with Ana Bursac plus performance, and Emily Momoh on Camden Black British History.
Ricercare with Victor Braojos plus performance and The New Bloomsbury Set.
Zhanna Macmillen on The Legendary Women of Bloomsbury plus Robin Spencer
on Urban Greening.
If Walls Could Sing with Rosie Carlisle and Fiona Rule plus Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John.
Camden Libraries with Abul Kashim, plus Ella Philips on Workshops, “Time To Grow”.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
26 Plants, John Simmons, Kaye Brennan, Max Parfitt, Jacob Sam-La Rose, and Margaret Kenna.
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.
Giant Folk with Rowan Flack plus performance and Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John.
In conversation with the New Bloomsbury Set.
New Wave Radio Drama: Petrichor by Theo Hristov. Produced as a radio play by Bloomsbury Radio.
Alison Ohta from The Royal Asiatic Society plus Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe.
Picasso In Bloomsbury with Anthony D Padgett plus New Wave: How To Run Away and Belly Dance Workshop with Lucy Andrina and Betty Chequers.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
Phoenix with Helen Percival plus live performance and Giuseppe Mario Urso, A Room Of One’s Own.
Who Were The Bloomsbury Group with Darren Clarke and Nino Strachey? Plus Ella Philips on Workshops, “Time To Grow”.
Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe plus Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.
Behind the scenes with New Eyes From Stem Cells, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and NIHR Moorefields Biomedical Research Centre, plus Jessica Rachid on Oils.
Bloomsbury Book Crawl with Bex Hughes plus Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John and Emily Momoh on Camden Balack British History.
Oils by Jessica Rachid. Winner of Bloomsbury Radio’s New Wave Radio Play Competition 2023, plus Abul Kashim on Camden Libraries.
Finegan Viscardi with Robert Finegan and Tara Viscardi plus an exclusive live studio performance and Alison Ohta from The Royal Asiatic Society.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
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.
26 Plants, John Simmons, Kaye Brennan, Max Parfitt, Jacob Sam-La Rose, and Margaret Kenna.
Blue Light Kast Art Association, in conversation with Antonio Rivas and Abul Kashim on Camden Libraries.
In conversation with Inua Ellams and Fuel Present plus Amber Fabian and Mark Malcomson on City Lit- Mental Wealth Festival and Bloomsbury Festival.
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.
Life Lines, Poetry, Dance and Music with Jean Woollard and Nick Murray plus in conversation with The New Bloomsbury Set.
Sonic Exploration with Michelle Hromin plus Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Jazz Orient with live studio performances.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
Phillipa Hyde on A Music Party At Montagu House Bloomsbury Baroque plus in conversation with The New Bloomsbury Set.
Margaret Kenna, poet in residence plus Rowan Flack on Giant Folk and
performance and Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.
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.
Michelle Penn on Seed Corrupted Poetry plus Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe.
Bloom with Daniella Sicari plus Young Voices At Bloomsbury with Paul Salt and Kat Haylett.
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.
Poetry and Music Evening with Alisa Oleva plus Robert Finegan and Tara Viscardi on their new EP and live studio performance.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
Noel Datta on her role in The Life Of Meena Kumari, Bollywood Star plus Emily Momah on Camden Black British History.
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.
Baluji Shrivastav OBE and Jazz Orient, live studio performances plus The New Bloomsbury Set.
Histoire Du Tango with Emma Lucia Reyes and Carlos Cisneros plus Paris Chapters with Robert Finegan and Clara Barbier and live studio performance.
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.
Nino Strachey on Young Bloomsbury, A New Queer History plus Franciso Diego
and Paradise Planet Earth.
Marianne Nichols on the Hidden History of The Foundling Hospital plus Young Voices At Bloomsbury with Paul Salt and Kat Haylett.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
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.
The Two Headed Bird with Rez Kabir plus Franciso Diego and Paradise Planet Earth.
Donald MacKenzie and The Bloomsbury Beast Pipe Organ, Silent Film Double Bill plus The New Bloomsbury Set.
Aida Lahlou and Mirrors plus Deaf Mosaic with Stephen Iliffe.
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.
From Downland To Britten plus performance with Duo Fabulae and Entwine: The Avocado Sculptures with Ghost and John.
New Wave Radio Drama: Petrichor by Theo Hristov. Produced as a radio play by Bloomsbury Radio.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
Paris Chapters with Robert Finegan and Clara Barbier plus live studio performance and Emily Momoh on Camden Balck British History.
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.
Alec Forshaw chats From Fields To Faculties and Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.
Franciso Diego with Paradise Planet Earth and The New Bloomsbury Set.
Bloomsbury Book Crawl with Bex Hughes plus Emily Momoh on Camden Black British History.
In conversation with the New Bloomsbury Set and Robin Spencer on Urban Greening.
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”.
Start the day with Bloomsbury Institute student Andrea David’s highlights from Bloomsbury Festival and beyond.
Paradise Planet Earth with Franciso Diego and A Room Of One’s Own with Giuseppe Mario Urso.
Emily Momoh on Camden Black British History plus Paris Chapters with Robert Finegan and Clara Barbier and live studio performance.
From Downland To Britten with Duo Fabulae plus Alison Ohta from The Royal Asiatic Society.
New Wave Radio Drama: Petrichor by Theo Hristov. Produced as a radio play by Bloomsbury Radio.
In conversation with the new Bloomsbury Set and Nicola Parry on The London Welsh Centre.
Listeners’ choice. A retrospective listen to previous interviews as chosen by you the listener.