Ms.Lucy Snowe

 St. Volodymyr Cathedral, Kiev Ukraine.

The Arctic Graveyard - First Prize

The Artic Graveyard took first place in the Arctic Convoys competition. The competition is part of the ‘Arctic Convoys: A Shared History’ programme produced by Western Approaches HQ in partnership with the Culture and Education Section of the British Embassy in Moscow and the Northern Maritime Museum in Arkhangelsk.”

Arctic Convoys Writing Competiton

Cinematography of Kazuo Miyagawa

BBC Forum - Unintended Consequences

Just to let you know the BBC FORUM  programme on Unintended Consequences will be broadcast on BBC World Service from this Saturday 6th December – Tuesday , depending on where in the world you are. Go tohttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio/help/faq for times and how to listen. 

Main UK Radio broadcast on DAB, cable, Freeview etc. is on Tuesday at 09:05am.

In the US Sirius XM satellite radio carries the full BBC WS schedule, http://www.siriusxm.com/bbc/weeklyschedule

You can also access the show or point others to it via ITunes.

The website will be active and populated by Saturday 6th Dec 2014, if not before. If the link doesn't work for whatever reason, please just put in Google "The Forum BBC World Service Unintended Consequences" and it will come up.

The programme will also be available online from Tuesday 9th December here:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02d5qfp, and will stay permanently on our archive.

Podcast (available for four weeks after the radio broadcast):http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/forum or through iTunes.

There is a  community of listeners on our Facebook Page. They love having guests take part. Do become a fan and join in the conversation http://tinyurl.com/ykx3nzw You can follow on twitter @BBCTheForum
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Serial

Serial is the world's most popular podcast and doesn't need my endorsement, but the hype is worth it - it is The Wire of podcasts - and, now I have heard episode 7, confirms my opinion that if you at all interested in motive and character and narrative then it is essential listening.

Vulture will provide you with five more reasons to listen

Windows on the World

Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul, Turkey
Matteo Pericoli’s new book, Windows on the World, features his intricate pen-and-ink illustrations of fifty views from fifty writers’ windows, including those of Orhan Pamuk, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and the late Nadine Gordimer. In short essays alongside the drawings, these authors share what they see from their windows—around the world, from Lagos to Berlin—drawing a new map of our imaginations and dreams.
Now you can have your view illustrated by Pericoli, too.
Starting November 1, submit a photograph of the view through your window—including the window frame—along with three hundred words about what you see, tocontests@theparisreview.org. Submissions will be judged by the editors of The Paris Review and Penguin Press, and by Matteo Pericoli. The winner will receive Pericoli’s original sketch and have his or her essay published on the Paris Review Daily. Five finalists will receive signed copies of Windows on the World. By submitting a contest entry, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the contest rules below.
Submissions will be accepted from November 1-15, 2014.