Digital editor @bbcworldservice. Connection is a Song: a '90s music adventure... Out now in hardback/paperback/audiobook. Click the link below 📚
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Anna Doble retweeted
We are beyond thrilled to share the books chosen from the 2026 open call for proposals to join the 33 1/3 series!
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You've been patiently waiting, and now it's almost here: the newest batch of 33 1/3s. Before we announce the full line-up of chosen proposals this Friday, we wanted to drop some hints at the fantastic albums joining the series. Can you guess what 33 1/3s are coming next?
I didn't post this in July because I find it strange when we chase after death on social media. But I've now re-listened to my conversation with William Orbit from Jan 2022. We chatted for ages and his detailed love of @bbcworldservice bowled me over 💙
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Anna Doble retweeted
Great weekend chatting Bowie, bicycles and From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads with ace music author @annadoble in the fab @PhloxBooks tent at @WildernessHQ. Lovely, kind audience many of whom had seen or met the Starman in his prime! Ta for having me⚡️
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📰| Waking Up With The Manic Street Preachers - 30 Years Of Everything Must Go
By @annadoble, the Quietus
#ManicStreetPreachers | @Manics | #EMG30
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Wishing you a peaceful 2026 from all at BBC World Service! 💫
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Thank you Simon @e17RnR_books - I definitely want to time travel and come round to yours for Subbuteo and I Should Coco!
P.s. The Mariah Christmas song came out 1994 but was truly monstering pub jukeboxes by ‘95 - just in case the pop nerds come for me 😬
The wondrous @stereolabgroop at Brixton Electric on Sunday. It was an electrified teenybop dream ✨⚡️✨
My very talented pal Rich Jones on strings - it’s freshly mad every time I remember he’s *in* Pulp 😂
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A really great night - thanks to everyone who braved the E17 icicles… James’s book is a glorious and mad adventure through Europe involving magical French chateaux, Berlin side streets and many, many camp sites… 🚲 ⛺️⚡️
We travelled from Ibiza to The Norfolk Broads with @JamBriggs and @annadoble thanks to everyone who came along and bought a book!
Signed copies from @WaterstonesE17
Proper chuffed.
Thank you @DaveRowntree & thank you to the marvellous Heath Bookshop in Birmingham ❤️
Am in Cardiff this weekend with evidence that, yes, Bowie *is* everywhere…
This Thursday (20 Nov), From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads - with @JamBriggs @e17RnR_books @iconbooks
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🍹⚡️Yes! Looking forward even more now! ⚡️🍹
Can't wait to chat with fab 90s indie author @annadoble about my Bowie escapade @e17RnR_books next Thursday. Come along for a Bowie bonanza and apparently a Life on Mars? themed cocktail.
@iconbooks
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#DavidBowie #books #bicycles #Walthamstow
Remembering my Grandad Frank - front right - who fought in WW1 at age just 17 as you can see in his young face here. He lived to the age of 90 and never wore his medals, never wanted to speak about what he saw (at least two of his friends killed) and truly hated all talk of war.
Am reading this book *right now* and laughing a lot! Can't wait to chat with @JamBriggs about all things Bowie, cycling and people not indicating when they turn left 😂- book your ticket now - Nov 20th ⚡️
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20 November, @MothersRuinE17 WALTHAMSTOW
JAMES BRIGGS - From Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads - A Bowie Odyssey @iconbooks
in conversation with @annadoble
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Extremely grateful to @LeftLion for doing this lovely piece on my chat with @bobpetesarah for the release of International - whatever funny thing was said in the photos, I wish I could recall... but my money is on Wiggs
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