Alasdair Cross

RT @BBCOpenCountry: Today we're in Shropshire exploring what remains of the garden and house where Charles Darwin grew up and which sparked…

RT @BBCFoodProg: What’s really in your spice rack? In this week’s programme, @jaegawise road tests a new device to investigate the authenti…

RT @BBCOpenCountry: Tales from The Quoile River in Co. Down as @HelenMark01 hears yarns of Vikings and steamboats and of the devastation it…

RT @BBCGetIn: Don't miss out on your chance to join the BBC! Applications close in 4 days for the remainder of our level 3 - 5 apprenticesh…

RT @BBCR4OC: How nature is helping asylum seekers - while at the same time asylum seekers help nature! @HelenMark01 meets the volunteers fr…

RT @theMaggieAyre: A reflection of the Irish spirit: a poignant time for a repeat of Soul Music Fairytale of New York on Christmas Eve at 2…

RT @BBCFoodProg: For more than 20 yrs @thedanbuettner’s been researching the lives of people living into old age in parts of the world he’s…

RT @wmarybeard: The final episode in our Being Roman series features a freed slave from Hertfordshire (as now) and her Syrian husband who e…

RT @wmarybeard: On Weds the 5th character of our 'Being Roman' series focusses on a frustrated & cross middle-manager in Roman Egypt, tryin…

One of the great Barrowlands gigs. Tough to lose John Byrne in the same week as Shane. Both looked at the world with a combination of emotional intensity and dark humour. Very Glasgow.

Lost Glasgow @LostGlasgow

With Shane MacGowan gone to the great pub in the sky, it's worth remembering that Glasgow was the first city in the world to hear him duet live with the normally stage-shy Kirsty MacColl on Fairytale of New York. https://t.co/z7MpHnXfre

(S)he's not in a good way. We interviewed the brilliant willow artist Serena de la Hey for @BBCR4OC when she was weaving it and it's been an elegant waymarker on trips to Cornwall. Now hemmed in by bland estate and hideous warehouses. I'd love to see him repaired and elevated.

BBC Somerset @bbcsomerset

What do you think should happen to the Willow Man? He could be repaired or rebuilt and even moved somewhere else. @SomersetCouncil has been given a grant to work out what to do with him and wants your views. https://t.co/UlSCY8bh5x

RT @BBCFarmingToday: From soap opera farming on Emmerdale, to farming for real in the Peak District - with a dancing detour en route. @CazG…

RT @wmarybeard: the next episode in Being Roman centres on 'Turia' , a Roman woman who avenges her parents' murder, battles her relations o…

RT @wmarybeard: if you enjoyed a glimpse into the young Marcus Aurelius, try some of the other Romans in our series of 'Being Roman'.. a wo…

RT @wmarybeard: Great to join the great jon snow!

RT @BBCRadio4: "What he exudes is that sense of a perfect, calm, well-intentioned ruler of the world." 🏛 Meet Marcus Aurelius. Emperor,…