Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast

How Malcom Arnold’s Peterloo Overture helped one person deal with the shock of the UK’s EU Referendum result.

This week sees the launch of the 2016/17 season of concerts at St John's Smith Square. To coincide with the launch, Jon Jacob speaks to SJSS Director Richard Heason, and pianist Christina McMaster and conductor Stephen Layton about their musical inspirations and work.

Composer Anna Meredith talks about mixing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with new electronic music in a new work, 'Anno', created by her and her sister Eleanor Meredith, and premiered at Spitalfields Music with the Scottish Ensemble earlier in June 2016.

Association of British Orchestras Director Mark Pemberton discusses the challenges faces British orchestras, some of the misconceptions about them, and the way he'd encourage newcomers to the concert hall. This podcast includes excerpts from Percy Grainger's Green Bushes.

Rosenblatt Recital series founder Ian Rosenblatt explains how he was introduced to classical music, why he thinks there's snobbery in the classical music scene, and why his recital series is about entertainment not narcissism.

The first in a new series of Thoroughly Good Podcasts, dedicated to classical music. In this episode you'll hear what the series is about, and what it's not about. And you'll hear a story about how Jon Jacob was introduced to an entirely unexpected style of music.

Television is throwaway, but the demands we have of it are considerable. The people meeting those demands with towering achievements like those Nicoline was responsible for in 2014 are often overlooked by those of us staring at the TV screen. It's time for those people to step into the limelight.

This week's podcast looks back on a weekend of baking at a cookery school in Devon,revisits some of my memories of school, including lonely lunch breaks in the practice rooms. All very light and frothy, I promise you.

Exploring the uncomfortable experience of the age gap. This podcast asks how we can maintain the isolation we strive with an increasing need to connect with the younger generation.

Ruby Wax's Taming of the Mind provides the starting point for this podcast which over the course of its 25 minutes takes in the benefits of mindfulness and a fear of swimming in the deep-end and links it, miraculously, to writing.