BBC Radio 4 at 9am and 9.30pm, August 29th: in the first programme of the latest series of Overtone’s Conversations on a Bench, Anna Scott-Brown talks to people who stop to sit beside her on a bench next to Manchester’s gay village, in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing. Throughout the programme, a specially commissioned…
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Follow Producer Philippa Geering and Presenter Dr. Keon West, to India, Germany, Senegal and around the UK in their quest to understand different cultural attitudes to nudity. Ride with Producer Gill Davies and Presenter Will Grant in Cuba on the trail of Che Guevara as we mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban’s death. Return to the…
Sonia Boyce reassesses the work of her friend and colleague, artist Donald Rodney, and his influence on British black art today. Donald Rodney, considered one of the most exciting talents of his generation in the 1980s and 90s, never lived to fulfil his potential. Now, Sonia meets some of the people he left behind, and…
As some of you might already know, we organised a concert of music written for Samuel Pepys by composer Cesare Morelli and performed at Saint Olave Church in London last April. These compositions were interpreted for the first time since Pepys would have played and sung them nearly 300 years ago and the evening was…
Our BBC Radio 4 programme, Pepys the Musician, exploring the post-diary musical life of Samuel Pepys, features the work of Dionysios on the manuscripts of Pepys’ household musician Cesare Morelli. Here he shares his story of how the documentary came to be and his thoughts about working with Overtone. Making ‘Pepys the Musician’ Best…
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