Before the Bar Opens is a podcast about what happens before the music starts.

Composer Emma Clarke talks to people who make, use and love music.

Performers, composers, a wedding DJ, a busker, an operatic soprano, a  remixer, Britain's Got Talent contestants, a musical firework champion,  a superfan, a session drummer, a pirate radio firebrand, a jingle  mogul, a music profiler, a radio bigwig, a hospital radio guru, a  satirical songwriter...

There's only one question: what happens before the music starts?

BEFORE THE BAR OPENS explores the relationship we have with music and  its transformative power to make us feel, think and do stuff.

Hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Find out more at BeforeTheBarOpens.com

You can find out more about Emma Clarke at EBClarke.com

Before the Bar Opens launches on 19th October. Subscriber, wherever you get your podcasts.