It was a radio broadcast that spoke to the public, causing emotion and joy, a nightingale singing along with a cello. It was the first time people had been able to hear wildlife broadcast live on the ...

One hundred years ago today, the BBC broadcast a live duet from a wood in Surrey between cellist Beatrice Harrison and a nightingale that sang as she played. Doubts have long been cast on the ...

19 May 1924 was the first day radio listeners heard a cello playing while nightingales sang, live from a Surrey garden. The cellist was Beatrice Harrison, who had recently performed the British debut ...

One of the most extraordinary events in the history of broadcasting took place 100 years ago, in a Surrey garden near Limpsfield. Foyle Riding was home to the leading British cellist Beatrice Harrison ...

HAVING often complained that films, plays or TV shows are too long, perhaps it's churlish to complain this theatre piece about cellist Beatrice Harrison left me feeling short-changed, artistically ...

Canongate will republish The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice Harrison, edited by Patricia Cleveland-Peck. C.e.o. Jamie Byng acquired world rights to the book, which was was originally ...

I am walking in deep darkness through Sussex woodland, part of a shoulder-holding chain of about 25 other audience members, to attempt to hear a singer who’s going to come on very late and may not ...

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