Blog posts by year and monthDecember 2012
Posts (4)
Petroc's revving up for the big day in Vienna ...
Petroc with Franz Welser-Most, before the shirt came off ... Vienna has got the weather just right this year: dry and bright, crisp enough to justify hat and gloves, yet without the bitter chill of my last few visits. Sun streams through the window of Franz Welser-Möst's dressing room at t...
Ghosts of Bush ...
Bush House, for more than 70 years the home of the BBC World Service, fell silent on 12 July this year. Its programmes, currently broadcast in 28 languages, moved to the newly-extended Broadcasting House in central London. John Goudie visited the deserted and emptied building, shortly before it ...
It's Question Time again on Radio 3
Calling Radio 3 Listeners! Steven Rajam, the producer behind 'Symphony Question Time' in 2011, is rolling out another series of the programme with presenters Sue Perkins and Tom Service ... Ever wondered if there's such a thing as a 'perfect' melody…? … Where the idea of 'major' and 'minor' ...
Jonathan Dove's Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi meets Jonathan Dove (l) This afternoon Barry Wordsworth took the stand at Cadogan Hall to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra in a live broadcast of Portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Burmese opposition politician. On Radio 3's highly successful Portrai...
