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BBC Radio 3: Sunday Feature: The Messy Guide to AI

Professor Jennifer Walshe explores the philosophical and aesthetic questions that AI raises for how we make, listen to and think about music.

BBC Radio 4: Today

Dr Jacob Downs discusses the use of headphones. Listen from 2:55:10.

BBC Radio 4: Uneasy Listening

Professor Laura Tunbridge features on this episode which examines three mid-20th century composers - Karlheinz Stockhausen, Morton Feldman and John Cage - who were responsible for turning classical music upside down and discomforting audiences.

BBC Radio 3: Opera on 3

Andrew McGregor presents Handel's Ariodante and is joined in the box by Handel expert Professor Suzanne Aspden to talk about Handel's glorious score.

BBC Radio 4: Today

Professor Jennifer Walshe promotes the LCMF x Wigmore Hall concert 'THE ARTIST IS NOT PRESENT', featuring the world premiere of her work Slop Studies 2#a-7 (2025).

BBC Radio 3: Opera on 3: Mozart's The Magic Flute

Professor Naomi Waltham-Smith joins presenter Martin Handley to talk about Mozart's genius in writing music which would appeal to his different audiences.

BBC Radio 3: Record Review: BBC Proms Composer - Mussorgsky

Professor Jonathan Cross picks five key recordings by BBC Proms Composer: Mussorgsky.

BBC Radio 3: Record Review: BBC Proms Composer - Brahms

Professor Laura Tunbridge picks five indispensable recordings by BBC Proms composer Johannes Brahms.

BBC Radio 3: Classical Live

Recordings of performances by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective—including Director of Performance Rosalind Ventris—at the Chipping Campden Music Festival were broadcast during the week beginning 23 June, featuring tenor Allan Clayton.

BBC Radio 4: Sunday Worship

On 29 June, Sunday Worship is a recorded service from The Queen's College Choir, directed by Professor Owen Rees, marking the anniversaries of the (1625) accession of Charles II and the death of Orlando Gibbons.

BBC Radio 3: Record Review: Stravinsky's Les Noces in Building a Library

Professor Jonathan Cross chooses his favourite recording of Stravinsky's Les Noces.

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BBC Radio 3: The Essay: Wakefield | The Song Detectorists

Dr Andrew Frampton takes presenter Matthew Bannister to Nostell Priory and the Wakefield Archives in West Yorkshire to explore the personal music book of Louisa Winn (1800–1861), and performs some of the music she collected.

BBC Radio 3: The Essay: The intimacy of radio

Dr Jacob Downs explores the intimate sounds of radio and how we, as listeners, might put on the radio for company. It's a dialogue with a 1939 essay by the critical theorist Theodor Adorno, who was also thinking about the power of radio—for good and for ill.

BBC News: Pupils recreate 'perfect town' musical 100 years on

Inspired by research by Dr Giles Masters, schoolchildren have been exploring what it means to build a town by recreating a musical theatre experiment from almost 100 years ago.

The Medieval Podcast: Sexy Medieval Songs

Podcast host Danièle Cybulskie speaks with Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach about sexy medieval songs, who was singing them, and how they served as inspiration in the bedroom.

BBC News World Service: Jennifer Walshe: Zero-gravity opera

Katie Derham follows Professor Jennifer Walshe, one of the world's most fêted contemporary classical composers, as she creates a new opera set on Mars.

BBC Radio 3 Classical Live: Highlights from the Cowbridge Music Festival

Director of Performance Rosalind Ventris performs alongside the Castalian String Quartet, the Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at Oxford University. The producer is alumna Amelia Parker.

BBC Radio 3: In Tune

Professor Owen Rees discusses the inspiration behind the music on the Choir of The Queen's College's new album That Sweet City. Listen from 1:28:08.

BBC Radio 4: World at One

Leo Geyer announces the premiere of Kołysanka (Lullaby), a poignant composition unearthed from Auschwitz as part of his DPhil research. Listen from 41:27.

BBC Radio 3 The Essay: Healing Musicians

Dr Kate Kennedy meets musicians who, like her, had to stop playing after injury and reshape their lives.

BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature: A Little History of Surreal Music

With College Lecturer Dr James Donaldson, Music students Aidan, Lulu, Ynyr, and Jessie help presenter Ian McMillan discover what surrealist music might sound like, with saxophone, viola, ukelele, and vocal chords in tow.

The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast: Episode 135, ‘The Philosophy of Headphones’

Dr Jacob Downs discusses the phenomenology of headphone listening in this two-part interview.

BBC Radio 4: Serial Offender: Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve Tone Adventure

Developed by Professor Laura Tunbridge and also featuring Professor Jonathan Cross, this programme explores why Schoenberg remains a controversial and divisive individual.

BBC News: Proms Beethoven actor: 'Deaf people can love music as much as anybody'

Professor Laura Tunbridge comments on music and deafness in this article ahead of Prom 42: Beethoven's Ninth Unwrapped, which airs on BBC Four on Friday 30 August at 20:00 BST.