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With Sam Mendes
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes explores the relationship between music and cinema.
25 Oct 2015,·33 mins
Michael White uncovers the life of the soprano singer Jennifer Vyvyan.
18 Aug 2011,·30 mins
Marie-Louise Muir explores the significance of Van Morrison's Belfast gigs.
29 Sep 2015,·30 mins
"Engendering fear was a basic tool": a profile of Hungarian conductor Fritz Reiner
19 Mar 1994,·43 mins
Is being tone-deaf a medical matter or simply a lack of training?
09 Sep 2011,·30 mins
The untold story of The Last Post, one of the world's most famous pieces of music.
11 Nov 2015,·26 mins
Kate Mossman tells the story of long-overlooked female music writers of the 1960s.
22 Mar 2016,·30 mins
Hugh Masekela - Words and Music
The BBC’s Audrey Brown pays tribute to South Africa’s Father of Jazz - Hugh Masekela.
27 Jan 2018,·49 mins
Dance on Screen
Katie Derham talks to choreographer Mandy Moore
22 Dec 2018,·34 mins
Jazz - George Reed
Mark Goodier and George Reed from 'Jazz Now And Then' talk about jazz
21 Jul 1993,·28 mins
Nick Barraclough celebrates the unsung singers.
23 May 2009,·30 mins
Meet the modern musicians adapting traditional West African music.
05 Jun 2012,·30 mins
2. Doom Metal And Beyond
Maddy Prior, lead singer of Steeleye Span, and her daughter Rose Kemp on musical futures
10 Nov 2015,·30 mins
The making of the Us3 jazz hip-hop album Broadway & 52nd
08 Sep 1995,·44 mins
Tayo Popoola explores Nigeria's enduring love of Jim Reeves and country and western music.
07 Nov 2017,·49 mins
Can there be too many cellists? How Jacqueline du Pré created a surfeit of cellists!
27 Aug 2015,·30 mins
The life of Louis Armstrong as told through his archive of tape recordings.
12 Dec 1998,·60 mins
Improvisations in music and story from the street pianists at London’s St Pancras Station.
13 Oct 2017,·30 mins
AVA Live 2023
All the action from Ireland's biggest dance festival.
02 Jun 2023,·295 mins
Alistair McGowan tells the story of the love letters that composer Erik Satie never sent.
13 Jul 2013,·30 mins
Series 2
Belfast Docks
Composer laureate Brian Irvine and Rachael Boyd, on fiddle, play the skyline of Belfast.
22 Aug 2016,·28 mins
30/11/2011
Long-lost fragments of Sibelius's Eighth, and feedback about the question of applause.
30 Nov 2011,·20 mins
The BBC Philharmonic returns to Japan for an emotional tour for the first time since 2011.
03 May 2013,·28 mins
Laura Snapes explores how musicians have defied gender boundaries to create art and music
21 Mar 2017,·30 mins
Neil Brand explores Hammer's modernist soundtracks, and explains how scary music works.
31 Oct 2022,·28 mins
Paul Gambaccini meets sound engineers James Lock and Geoff Emerick.
05 Feb 2008,·30 mins
Shining a light on the earliest female jazz pioneers, who were erased from music history.
16 Sep 2014,·30 mins
Paul Bennun explores the world of music composed for video games.
15 Feb 2011,·30 mins
Pete Paphides visits the M1's improbable 1960s music meeting place - Blue Boar Services.
12 Jul 2011,·30 mins
Navid Akhtar examines the legacy of the influential Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
21 Aug 2007,·30 mins
