In 1924, the BBC broadcast a live recording of the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing a duet with a nightingale. It was the first in a series of recordings which would be repeated annually until 1942.

In 1924, cellist Beatrice Harrison caused a sensation when her duet with a nightingale in her garden was broadcast live. When the truth of this groundbreaking event was questioned, I decided to ...

Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

Across the world, a few species have earned a reputation for voices that are as remarkable as their appearance.

"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved ...