Kazuki Yamada in conversation

Tom plays classical music to start your weekend.

Conductor Kazuki Yamada - the current music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) - chats to Tom about upcoming appearances with the ensemble and his vision for it.

Tom also talks to composer Brett Dean and mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean ahead of their appearance at London's Kings Place on 17 January. On the occasion, father and daughter join Aurora Orchestra to present a programme inspired by the theme of memory, including music by Brett Dean himself, and by Charles Ives, Copland, Radiohead, Kurt Weill, Ravel, Caroline Shaw and others.

Author Daisy Fancourt joins Tom to chat about her new book, Art Cure - The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health, which is out now, published by Penguin.

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