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The Arts Desk Radio Show 9
Saturday, 09 February 2013
Welcome to the latest edition of The Arts Desk Radio Show, originally broadcast live from London's glamorous Dalston last Tuesday on NTS Live. Once again Joe found himself flying solo as... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 8
Saturday, 12 January 2013
The Arts Desk has quietly been testing the waters in the world of live radio, thanks to the kind people at NTS Live who invited Joe and Peter to do a fortnightly show for them. Having got into the... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: The Baltic Youth Philharmonic
Sunday, 04 November 2012
The Baltic Youth Philharmonic (founded in 2008) is part of a much larger and bolder enterprise embracing the 10 nation states bordering the Baltic Sea. At a time of financial duress when... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: The Elias String Quartet
Sunday, 14 October 2012
The vibrant Elias String Quartet are 14 years young, well established, and well respected on the international scene. Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and recipients of a Borletti-Buitoni... Read more... |
Exclusive: Friar Alessandro, The Voice of Assisi
Sunday, 07 October 2012
By day, Friar Alessandro Brustenghi lives and works in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi. In his spare time, he works as a carpenter. But he also has a new career as, in the... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes
Sunday, 07 October 2012
Over the next four seasons the Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will be embarking upon a “Beethoven Journey” that will clock up 150 performances in 55 cities all over the world. At the heart of... Read more... |
The Seckerson Tapes: John Wilson on Rodgers and Hammerstein
Sunday, 30 September 2012
John Wilson Orchestra’s stunning 2010 Prom celebration of Rodgers and Hammerstein was as close as those who heard it could imagine to being guests on the 20th Century Fox soundstage c. 1955... the... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 7
Monday, 03 September 2012
The seventh radio show from theartsdesk features a wealth of eclectic music, from grime to Bach, while Joe Muggs and Peter Culshaw discuss everything from French café culture of... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 6
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Welcome to another show, in which Joe guides us around some of the weirder, smokier corners of the broad church of hip hop, and discussion returns to how far genre can stretch and where... Read more... |
The Arts Desk Radio Show 5
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Peter has just come back from Lagos, so the first part of the show is a brief tour d’horizon of the dynamic Nigerian pop scene, featuring Asa, Tiwa Savage, 2Face, Flavour and D’Banj, the... Read more... |
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