MJ Cole

Peter Maxwell Davies

Essential Classics guest James May discusses his attempts to create a supersonic Action Man

Essential Classics guest James May

Essential Classics guest James May talks to Rob Cowan about his love of singing.

James May on Essential Classics

Trail for Words and Music, Sunday 22nd February 5:30pm. "Memory", with readings by Eleanor Bron and Tom Hiddleston.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052zwd4

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Erica Jong reveals what she considers to be the biggest issue facing women today

Biggest Issue Facing Women Today

Julia Sawalha talks about the unexpected success of Absolutely Fabulous

Julia Sawalha on Absolutely Fabulous

Rob Cowan talks to Charles Dance, aka Lord Tywin Lannister about the Game of Thrones phenomenon! 

Charles Dance talks Game of Thrones with Rob Cowan

Director Deborah Warner on the responsibility of basing an opera on the events of 9/11 .
Music Matters, Saturday 11th April 2015, 12.15pm on BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05qdp0t

ENO Between Worlds Clip

Murray Perahia talks about improvisation, and the difference between jazz and classical musicians.
Tune in to Music Matters, Saturday 20th June
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05zgf6m

Perahia on improvisation

Jeremy Vine tells Rob Cowan a story which demonstrates the power of radio

Jeremy Vine on Essential Classics

Rick tells Sarah Walker that lifetime achievement awards might not always be such a good thing

Rick Wakeman on Essential Classics

Acclaimed actress, Sian Phillips, tells Sarah Walker about the perils of live radio broadcast in the 1950s

Sian Phillips on Essential Classics

Philippa Gregory tells Rob Cowan about how she thinks history should be taught in schools.

Philippa Gregory on Essential Classics

Alfred Brendel talks to Tom Service about his surreal past. 
"It was walking on the floor, slowly of course, looking at a monument of Mozart. Is it very baffling to do such things?

Listen to the whole interview on Music Matters, Saturday 19th September 2015 at 12.15pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bqbb6

Alfred Brendel talks about taking a tortoise to the Vienna Musikverein

"Maybe people think that I am thinking out performances, which is absolutely not the case, but I’m trying to monitor them, to be critical about them, to see whether they do the right things."

Alfred Brendel talks to Tom Service for Radio 3's Music Matters. 

Listen to the whole interview on Music Matters, Saturday 19th September 2015 at 12.15pm
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bqbb6

Alfred Brendel talks about music and intellectualism

"For me the piece should tell the player what to do. And if then the outcome is original, this is fine."

Alfred Brendel talks to Tom Service for Radio 3's Music Matters. 

Listen to the whole interview on Music Matters, Saturday 19th September 2015 at 12.15pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bqbb6

Alfred Brendel on  trying to be original in Classical Music

"I’ve always been interested in all the arts. And I’m what may be called an aesthetic person. I mean somebody who thinks that aesthetic matters justifies the existence."

Alfred Brendel talks to Tom Service for Radio 3's Music Matters. 

Listen to the whole interview on Music Matters, Saturday 19th September 2015 at 12.15pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bqbb6

Alfred Brendel on music and other arts

"There are rare exceptions where I accept that somebody plays things very differently and they are persuasive, but very rare.."

Alfred Brendel talks to Tom Service for Radio 3's Music Matters. 

Listen to the whole interview on Music Matters, Saturday 19th September 2015 at 12.15pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bqbb6

Alfred Brendel on having respect for music

Jean talks to Rob Cowan about discovering Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra 

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