Podcast Episodes

Crazy

"It's the kind of music that makes you feel like you're just hurting so good"

People of different ages reflect on why the pop country classic 'Crazy' …

11 years, 9 months ago

Rhapsody in Blue

"I'm convinced it's the best thing ever written and recorded in the history of things written and recorded" - Moby.

Rhapsody in Blue was premiered on …

11 years, 9 months ago

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

The story behind the song, 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'.

It was first performed by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St Loui…

12 years ago

Brahms' German Requiem

How Brahms' German Requiem has touched and changed people’s lives.

It was written as a tribute to his mother and designed to comfort the grieving,

Stua…

12 years ago

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Few songs can claim to be - quite literally - as far reaching as the 1967 classic 'Can't Take My Eyes off You'.

Former astronaut Christopher Ferguson…

12 years ago

Gymnopédie No 1

Pascal Rogé is one of the world's greatest interpreters of French piano music.

From the seat of a concert hall piano, he leads us through a personal…

12 years, 1 month ago

Strange Fruit

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit, blood on the leaves and blood at the root..."

Billie Holiday's famous song expresses the horror and anguish of …

12 years, 1 month ago

Elgar's Dream of Gerontius

How the choral work The Dream of Gerontius, by Edward Elgar, has touched and changed people's lives.

For Terry Waite, it was the first piece of music …

12 years, 5 months ago

Don't Leave Me This Way

Don't Leave Me This Way was written in the early 1970s by songwriters Huff, Gamble and Gilbert.

They were the composers behind the famous black Americ…

12 years, 5 months ago

Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

'Make Me a Channel of Your Peace' found its way into weddings, funerals and school assemblies.

Discover how this hymn has also embedded itself into th…

12 years, 5 months ago