Arts chiefs
Movers and shakers from the top of musical organisations.
"The fact that Wales has culture as a very proud part of its fabric...is a huge advantage."
Tom speaks to Hilary Boulding, the principal of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
"There are quite a few Welsh people who are not so convinced that we are a musical nation."
Chair of Arts Council Wales Dai Smith talks to Tom about recent Arts Council funding cuts
"For opera to remain somehow muffled or banal or bland, is the worst betrayal of its heritage and its intention."
Tom Service talks to David Pountney, Artistic Director of Welsh National Opera.
"I go round the world and I'm a spy. I have been on more than 100 juries..."
Dame Fanny Waterman, now 95, talks about her life & Leeds International Piano Competition
"We're not just the opera company in the opera house."
Opera North's Richard Mantle talks about the challenges of running a touring company.
"The idea was to subsidise the capital cost of the arts through running the office space."
Tom Service speaks to Peter Millican, the CEO and creator of King's Place
"We're the only opera house that has a true global constituency. We're in every continent except Antarctica."
Tom speaks to Peter Gelb, General Manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera, in June 2014
"What Aldeburgh has to offer the world of music, is something that the world of music desperately needs."
Jonathan Reekie, who left Aldeburgh Music after 16 years as Chief Executive in 2014.
"Opera is not a museum. It's not about the past."
Petroc Trelawny discusses ENO with its Artistic Director, John Berry, in 2014.
"When you deal with creative people, you have to be more tolerant than with your book-keeping department."
In autumn 2011 Alexander Pereira became Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival.
"We have the opportunity in the next ten years to bring far more arts to far more people in far more ways than ever before."
Sir Peter Bazalgette spoke to Tom just a few weeks into his role at Arts Council England.
