@MsSarahOReilly

Mainly listening, sometimes typing. Oral historian, interviewer, Studs Terkel fangirl. Authors' Lives project @BL_OralHistory Occasional radio person

Joined February 2020
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Nick Curtis@nickcurtis14 Aug 2025
Really enjoyed this.
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Alice Kennelly@alicearts1414 Aug 2025
A really important doc on ‘Arts Criticism’ with contribution from a one of the UK’s most esteemed theatre critics ever @billicritic .
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barry pierce@BarryPierce19 Aug 2025
You lucky, lucky people. You can now listen to me talking about criticism on the BBC. Had loads of fun with this. I’m glad they exclusively used my most call-to-arms quotes. @Arifa_Akbar bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h9w…

BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, No Criticism, 2. The Machine as Taste-Maker

Theatre critic Arifa Akbar explores whether the art of criticism is in crisis.

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Aly Dickinson@dickinson_aly9 Nov 2024
Thank you so much for a wonderful programme
Melissa FitzGerald@Melissafitzg9 Nov 2024
Don’t miss ‘Famous Last Words’ on ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ tonight at 8pm 🎙️ ⁦@MsSarahOReilly⁩ delves into the rich archive of ‘last interviews’ since Dennis Potter sat down with Melvyn Bragg 30 years ago. BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Famous Last Words bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024vp…
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What?!? You're thinking of going out TONIGHT?!? Think again - look what they're broadcasting on the wireless kids ... bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001467…
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BBC Feedback@BBCR4Feedback22 Oct 2022
Debates about "high" and "low" culture have been playing out at the BBC for 100 years, as @PhilipHensher finds out today in 'The Battle of the Brows.' Get in touch - is #BBCRadio "dumbing down"? bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dd8…

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, The Battle of the Brows

Philip Hensher looks at how debates over culture have played out at the BBC and beyond.

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ICYMI On the Radio: Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Harry Potter, Tracy Beaker and the joy of children's books heraldscotland.com/news/1991… #HarryPotter #TracyBeaker #EnidBlyton

On the Radio: Harry Potter, Tracy Beaker and the joy of children's books

THE very first book I bought for myself was one of Enid Blyton’s lesser-known works. The Adventures of Binkle and Flip, a couple of “bad…

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Jenny Linford@jennylinford10 Feb 2022
"Children's books are one of the things that we in the UK do really well." Writer @frankcottrell_b tells the story of children's books in the UK, featuring Ursula Le Guin, Alan Garner, Tove Jansson @PhilipPullman + other wonderful writers. #mustlisten bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00146…

Archive on 4 - Wonderlands - BBC Sounds

Frank Cottrell-Boyce explores the wonderlands that children's books take us to.

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Prof Bob Davis@Rokewood5 Feb 2022
Very satisfying & illuminating. And great fun too! Thanks @frankcottrell_b
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SF Said@whatSFSaid4 Feb 2022
You can never be too old to read children's books, because they are really books for EVERYONE! I believe they're the most important books of all, and I loved talking about them for this show, with @frankcottrell_b @malorieblackman & more! Saturday R4 8pm: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001467…
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1990: Stone Roses at Spike Island 1996: Oasis at Knebworth 2021: The British Library at the British Library #GenerationDefining
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Ruth Muscat@RuthMuscat16 Feb 2021
If you have an hour to spare, this is a tremendous listen.
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Novelist Andrea Levy recorded this interview on condition that it was only heard after her death. She died on this day in February 2019. bbc.in/3pFT8s6

Archive on 4 - Andrea Levy: In Her Own Words - BBC Sounds

Andrea Levy speaks candidly about her writing life and her impending death.

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Novelist Andrea Levy recorded this interview on condition that it was only heard after her death. She died in February 2019. bbc.in/2YBDEJP

Archive on 4 - Andrea Levy: In Her Own Words - BBC Sounds

Andrea Levy speaks candidly about her writing life and her impending death.

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‘How come England did not know me?’ In 2014, Andrea Levy recorded her life story in an interview with Sarah O’Reilly as part of the Authors’ Lives project. Listen to clips & explore the recording with our new article on Windrush Stories: bl.uk/windrush/articles/reco…
Collage featuring a typed draft of Small Island, photograph of Andrea Levy as a child with her parents on a beach, and a postcard of the Empire Windrush ship

ALT Collage featuring a typed draft of Small Island, photograph of Andrea Levy as a child with her parents on a beach, and a postcard of the Empire Windrush ship

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Huge congratulations to poet Linton Kwesi Johnson on being awarded the 2020 #PENPinterPrize! The @BL_OralHistory team made an oral history recording with LKJ in 2014-15, take a look at the team's latest blog to find out more: ow.ly/PClX50Arx80 @englishpen @fourcomms
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Congratulations to Linton Kwesi Johnson on winning the 2020 #PENPinterPrize from @englishpen! To coincide @MsSarahOReilly looks at Johnson’s career through his life story interview for the National Life Stories oral history project ‘Authors’ Lives’. blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision…
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‘We cannot know for certain what his future will be. But we do know that we will be proud of him. And he will be loved.’ Give me a minute, I need to find a box of tissues. This ending! Thank you for joining us for #SmallIsland.
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For anyone watching the fabulous #SmallIsland on #NationalTheatreAtHome ⁦⁦@NationalTheatre⁩ - 🎧 listen to #AndreaLevy tell her powerful story here ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ #BLMUK #BLM ⁦⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000f5…

Archive on 4 - Andrea Levy: In Her Own Words - BBC Sounds

Andrea Levy speaks candidly about her writing life and her impending death.

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🎧 New podcast alert 🎧tune into Ep. 1 of our new series The Covid Files: ⁦@honigsbaum⁩ talks facts, figures and projections about #COVIDー19 with the brilliant ⁦⁦⁦⁦@AndrewNoymer⁩. What lessons can we learn from history? #COVIDー19 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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We'd like to reassure everyone that we're not going away. We look after manuscripts that are hundreds, if not thousands of years old. They have survived through good times and bad. So here's a cat in a submarine. Keep safe everyone. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
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