Bloomsbury Institute’s Bloomsbury Radio gives its schedule over to The Bloomsbury Festival 2024 from Fri 18 – Sun 27 October, 2pm – 9pm daily. Behind the scenes conversations around each event listed interspersed with live music and live reports from Bloomsbury Radio studios and the events themselves.
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Friday 18 October
2pm: Live Launch / Present Tense – Michelle Hromin
3pm: Jamboree Presents: The Cabarats / 3 Couples: 2 Breakups, 1 Barbie And The Berlin Wall
4pm: AI Symposium and Jam- The Computational Creativity Collective / Philosophy With Compassion
5pm: I Say Lawyer You Say…… / Life Lines Poetry Dance and Music
6pm: Embroidery Workshop with Dev Patel / Berliners And Other Poems- Dark Angels / Samka Meets Neo Norte
7pm: A Space For Us: Women’s Ways and Missions / Bloomsbury Blitz: The Untold Story
8pm: human/animal – Pete Gomes / Caring For Children: The Story Of The Foundling Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital / Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions: A Charles Dickens Story
9pm: The Encrypted Forest / 24: Visual Concert / Walking Like A Human – Sarah Farley
10pm: Amplify Live: Queer Joy / Neurodivergence and Creativity Panel discussion. 26 Wordstock
Saturday 19 October
2pm: Humanist Bloomsbury- Doers, Dreamers, Placemakers / Novo Movement – Chakras Workshop
3pm: Jamboree Presents / Harmonic Dimensions: Exploring The Polyphonic Space
4pm: Isaac Shien (Natural Horn) / Ethical Matters: How Crowds Made The Modern World
5pm: The Black Shalwar / Around The World- Rob Hao
6pm: Sunday Concert: Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea / Special Specimen – Giuseppe Urso
7pm: Virtual Worlds: Corals At The Grant Museum / The Science Of Art: Dr Ayse Akarca
8pm: 26 Connections – 26 Writers / Listener’s Choice
9pm: Echoes Of Care: The Living History of Coram and The Foundling Museum / Generation UCL: 200 Years of Student Life in London
10pm: Fizz Droop and Drool – Meghan Salisbury / Children Of The Stars – Xin Qing.
Sunday 20 October
2pm: Unseen: Theatrical Presentation And Panel Discussion / Listener’s Choice
3pm: Being Human and Being Kind / Listener’s Choice
4pm: Harmonic Dimensions: Exploring The Polyphonic Space / Listener’s Choice
5pm: Jamboree Presents / Live music from Jamboree Musicians
6pm: The Patient Soldier / Bloomsbury Bookshop Crawl
7pm: 26 Connections – 26 Writers / Listener’s Choice
8pm: Joe Duggan – The Bloomsbury Commission in Russell Square / Echoes Of Care: The Living History of Coram and The Foundling Museum
9pm: Children Of The Stars – Xin Qing / Listener’s Choice
10pm: The Science Of Art: Dr Ayse Akarca / Listener’s Choice
Monday 21 October
2pm: Luminous Beings – An Artistic Enquiry into Human Connections / Listener’s Choice
3pm: Suite For JeJu – SEAYOOL + Ligeti Quartet / Listener’s Choice
4pm: Colours of Bloomsbury / Jamboree Presents
5pm: Humans, Health and Happiness – Camden Tour Guides Association / Listener’s Choice
6pm: Sei Solo – New Wave Lunchtime Concert / Listener’s Choice
7pm: Echoes Of Care: The Living History of Coram and The Foundling Museum / Listener’s Choice
8pm: Holborn Library – Bloomsbury Festival Special / Listener’s Choice
9pm: 26 Connections – 26 Writers
10pm: A Blast from the Past: Katherine White’s Award Winning Radio Play “Umbrella”
Tuesday 22 October
2pm: Being Human and Being Kind / Humans, Health and Happiness – Camden Tour Guides Association
3pm: A Blast from the Past: Petrichor by Theo Hristov, interview and radio play
4pm: Unseen: Theatrical Presentation And Panel Discussion / Listener’s Choice
5pm: Eye Ypag – Equaleyes- Noone left behind- NIHR Moorfields / Listener’s Choice
6pm: Children of The Stars – Xin Qing / Listener’s Choice
7pm: The Patient Soldier / Listener’s Choice
8pm: Neurodivergence and Creativity Panel discussion. 26 Wordstock.
9pm: The Science Of Art: Dr Ayse Akarca / Merger On The Dancefloor. Part 1
10pm: Merger On The Dancefloor. Part 2 / Listener’s Choice.
Wednesday 23 October
2pm: Bloomsbury Festival 2024 Launch Highlights / Listener’s Choice
3pm: Unsewn – Barkha Bahar and Federica Ruggieri / Listener’s Choice
4pm: Tethered – Tiffany King / Listener’s Choice
5pm: The Patient Soldier / Listener’s Choice
6pm: Eye Ypag – Equaleyes- Noone left behind- NIHR Moorfields / Listener’s Choice
7pm: Unseen – Extant. A gripping new Radio Drama
8pm: Tethered – Tiffany King and Jacob Meadows
9pm: Joe Duggan – The Bloomsbury Commission in Russell Square / Listener’s Choice
10pm: Sei Solo – New Wave Lunchtime Concert / Listener’s Choice
Thursday 24 October
2pm: Shifting Perspectives – Visual Tales of Unexpected Mental Health Champions / Listener’s Choice
3pm: The Daisy Chain – Princess Bestman / Phoenix – Helen Percival
4pm: Young Voices – Birkbeck Cinema / Sogya – The Avieli Arthouse
5pm: Attempts on a Birch Tree – I Am I Am / Making Tokens – Ceramics Workshop
6pm: Unseen – Extant. A gripping new Radio Drama
7pm: Haddock – Max Raeburn – New Wave Radio Play produced by Bloomsbury Radio
8pm: What Makes You Human? What Makes You Kind? / Women By Women – Shattering Refugee Stereotypes and Narratives
9pm: Being Dyslexic – UCL Institute of Education.(Being Human and Being Kind) / Jamboree chat and live music
10pm: Haddock – Max Raeburn – New Wave Radio Play produced by Bloomsbury Radio.
Friday 25 October
2pm: The Science Of Art: Dr Ayse Akarca / Eye Ypag – Equaleyes- Noone left behind- NIHR Moorfields
3pm: Dialogus – New Wave Lunchtime Concert / Phoenix – Helen Percival
4pm: St. Giles: The Hidden Heart Of London / Listener’s Choice
5pm: Dinner With Mr Dilly – Friends of St George’s Gardens / The Daisy Chain – Princess Bestman
6pm: Attempts on a Birch Tree – I Am I Am / Eye Ypag – Equaleyes- Noone left behind- NIHR Moorfields
7pm: Unseen – Extant. A gripping new Radio Drama
8pm: Haddock – Max Raeburn – New Wave Radio Play produced by Bloomsbury Radio
9pm: 26 Connections – 26 Writers
10pm: The Jellyfish Enigma – Chrysaora Collective / Listener’s Choice
Saturday 26 October
2pm: Bloomsbury Festival 2024 Launch Highlights / Listener’s Choice
3pm: I.D.S.T. – Ludo and Jake / Listener’s Choice
4pm: The Alchemy Of Melody and Word / Grupo Lokito: Congo Meets Cuba!
5pm: Kraken Time – Patti West / Shifting Perspectives: Visual Tales of “Unexpected” Mental Health Champions
6pm: Across The Square – Alex Pearson / Listener’s Choice
7pm: Holborn Library – Bloomsbury Festival Special / Listener’s Choice
8pm: I.D.S.T. – Ludo and Jake / Listener’s Choice
9pm: The Alchemy Of Melody and Word / Listener’s Choice
10pm: I.D.S.T. – Ludo and Jake / Listener’s Choice
Sunday 27 October
2pm: Grupo Lokito: Congo Meets Cuba! / The Jellyfish Enigma – Chrysaora Collective
3pm: The Alchemy Of Melody and Word / I.D.S.T. – Ludo and Jake
4pm: Across The Square – Alex Pearson / Suite For Jeju – SEAYOOL
5pm: Kraken Time – Patti West / Listener’s Choice
6pm: Haddock – Max Raeburn – New Wave Radio Play produced by Bloomsbury Radio
7pm: Unseen – Extant. A gripping new Radio Drama
8pm: Listener’s Choice
9pm: Listener’s Choice
10pm: Listener’s Choice