I am not only utterly disgusted, I am re-traumatised today. To realise that whilst I obeyed the rules and was therefore, heartbreakingly, unable to kiss, touch or hold my mother as she fell gravely ill and then died…these arrogant, entitled f**kwits were having a party.
The creator of universes
@neilhimself
in the studio for The Arts Hour on
@bbcworldservice
. We talked about
@netflix
The Sandman, his fountain pens as displayed… & much more besides. Embargoed…but I’ve seen all 10 episodes. It’s superb on every single level
#TheSandmanNetflix
I want Salman Rushdie to keep fighting. Fighting for his life. Fighting to see his family continue to grow & flourish. Fighting for freedom of speech. Fighting those who wish to silence original thinkers. Fighting so that we can show him how he’s admired & adored
#SalmanRushdie
My grandfather Sumant Moolgaokar was the Chairman of
@TataMotors
. Here he is giving HRH Prince Philip a tour of the Telco plant in Jamshedpur. My Ajoba is in the driver’s seat. JRD Tata is in the back seat
The brilliant
@bettanyhughes
has a two part India documentary starting on
@Channel4
this Sunday 8pm . Exploring India’s Treasures. Appointment to view.
This man.
@WendellPierce
for a whole
@bbcworldservice
Arts Hour. He makes a really moving, radically honest admission. We talk about his role as Willy Loman in
@youngvictheatre
’s Death Of A Salesman. He defines jazz. And he talks about the social impact of
@AoDespair
’s The Wire.
I took a photo of the legendary photographer
@annieleibovitz
. Our interview will be on next week’s
@bbcworldservice
Arts Hour. In fact, she’ll have a whole half of the programme. Because she’s mighty.
Tonight’s Prom 18
@bbcproms
is a celebration of Lata Mangeshkar, the late, great Indian singer & my fellow Maharastrian! Her film song repertoire is breathtaking & will be interpreted by
@palakmuchhal3
&
@TheCBSO
. I’m presenting the TV coverage..You can watch it on
@BBCFOUR4
I’m presenting this afternoon’s
@BBCRadio4
Word Of Mouth programme & it’s Words Used About Women
Professor Deborah Cameron
@wordspinster
& I discuss the language used to talk about women from hussy to bossy, spinster to slut...join us at 4pm.
And now this....I’m interviewing
@TheOliverStone
next week for an
@bbcworldservice
Arts Hour special. Such a fascinating life and an extraordinary body of work 🙏🏽
My praise for
@iKabirBedi
’s memoir. What a life! What stories! Beautifully told with an emotional honesty that can’t have been easy. A journey on a juggernaut hurtling through his life…he’s driving and we’re in the passenger seat.
#kabirbedi
#storiesimusttell
🙏🏽❤️
VV important.
@GeorgeThePoet
on
@BBCOne
for an Inside Out special...London council homes are fast disappearing from the skyline. George the Poet looks at why the city's poor are losing out when councils regenerate their estates. And how they’re fighting back
@BBCLondonNews
On tomorrow’s Saturday Live
@BBCRadio4
@RevRichardColes
& I meet Lucy Gray who’s fascinated by what a discarded shopping list reveals & we’d like your supermarket stories incidents/accidents/a hook up in the frozen veg aisle… email saturdaylive
@bbc
.co.uk tweet
#bbcsaturdaylive
Enormously influential psychiatrist and broadcaster Dr Anthony Clare, presenter of the revealing interview series In the Psychiatrist's Chair, died on this day in 2007.
These are his seven secrets of happiness.
In The Psychiatrist's Chair on
@BBCSounds
Delighted to experience the amazing
@asma_khanldn
’s
@darjeelingldn
2.0 in Covent Garden. Great to have
@sadiqkhan
supporting too..Divine & delicious food, a gorgeous new space, yet still the with the same homely, warm vibes that Asma creates everywhere she goes. Congratulations🙏🏽
The mighty Helen Mirren will be on next Monday’s
@BBCFrontRow
talking about playing Catherine The Great for the new
@HBO
@NOWTV
series. The closest living woman to CTG is
@Madonna
. Helen said so. I concur.
I’m presenting the
@BBCRadio4
Appeal today for the
@RailwayChildren
charity.The work they do in India is especially close to my heart…helping to get girls back into education & prevent child marriage. You can listen at 7.54am Thank you 💚
#RailwayChildren
Huge admiration and gratitude to the two superb
@Ldn_Ambulance
paramedics who just attended an emergency and not only dealt with the situation in the most medically exemplary way but were also incredibly kind and caring. Thank you. Never take our
@NHS
@NHSEnglandLDN
for granted.
Saw 1st episode of
@MiraPagliNair
’s A Suitable Boy for
@BBCOne
in preview 💥💥Tabu, as always, is mesmerising & powerful. I was afraid such an epic novel couldn’t be honoured on screen. If ep 1’s anything to go by I needn’t have worried🙏🏽
Utterly delicious to hear
@archiepanjabi
playing the peerless
@madhurjaffrey
on
@BBCRadio4
this week in An Invitation To Indian Cooking
@RajGhatak
plays Ismail Merchant. Shakespeare Wallah was a film that changed my life & these two books are my most well used recipe sources!
Off to Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭 tomorrow for my
@bbcworldservice
Arts Hour On Tour. We have a superb line-up...
@manifestive
@Cina_Soul
comedian DKB, actress and producer
@lydiaforson
and the artist Kwame Akoto Banfo. Tickets for Monday’s show available here