233: Belly of the Beast at Aldeburgh, Spitalfields and Edinburgh
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage in 1694, two books of biblic...
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228 Repeat: Aldeburgh & Snape, 50 Years After Britten's Death
This episode is being republished during this year's Aldeburgh Festiva. This episode was first published 1 June. Fifty years after Britten's...
232: Adrian Brendel on Tree of Strings
Cellist Adrian Brendel on Tree of Strings, his new Dorset festival — the Harrison Birtwistle story behind its name, genre-mixing, and watchi...
231: Bergen International Festival's Lars Petter Hagen
Bergen International Festival Artistic Director and Chief Executive Lars Petter Hagen talks programming, audiences, leadership and listening...
230: Franco Fagioli
Time with the most playful of interviewees, Franco Fagioli, recorded in Versailles in March 2026. Fagioli appears with Orchestra de l'Opera...
229: Christophe Rousset on Lully, Mozart, and playing with rules
Christophe Rousset is a harpsichordist, conductor, and founder of Les Talens Lyriques. In this conversation, recorded in Paris, he talks abo...
228: Aldeburgh & Snape 50 years after Britten's Death
Fifty years after Britten's death, Aldeburgh and Snape still carry his fingerprints — and still provoke the same question: what is this plac...
227: Claire Booth
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2026 curator Claire Booth was asked a blunt question when she was invited her to put together this year's p...
226: Huw Watkins
Composer and pianist Huw Watkins explores his work, his musical language, his collaborations with musicians including Tamsin Waley-Cohen wit...
225: Gen Z, Gen A, and Forgotten Older People
When branding gets louder than the art.
224: Lizzie Ball
A conversation with violinist and singer Lizzie Ball that begins with “big announcement week” energy and opens into a thoughtful exploration...
223: Mezzo Soprano Katie Bray
What’s the point of pursuing something you can never reach? Hope, apparently. Mezzo-soprano Katie Bray makes a compelling case. Her new albu...
222: Penelope Appleyard
Discover Penelope Appleyard's Live from London’s festive Jane Austen programme with Zeb Soanes and pianist Jonathan Delbridge: song, domesti...
221: Revere Arts' Elise Brown and Class Ceiling
How do we make the classical music industry inclusive for people from lower socio-economic backgrounds — when even the “comfortable” ones st...
220: Composer and Sound Artist Ruby Colley
Composer and sound artist Ruby Colley releases her new album Hello Halo on 14 November 2025 — a work shaped by field recordings, family arch...
219: Writer Carole Hayman
Carole Hayman is a writer, director and producer best known for creating the long-running Radio 4 comedy Ladies of Letters, and for her work...
218: Vache Baroque's Betty Makharinsky
Vache Baroque didn’t start with a five-year plan. It started with a can-do attitude. In 2020, soprano-producer Betty Makharinsky and conduct...
217: Pianist Clare Hammond and Michael Betteridge
Pianist Clare Hammond is no stranger to the Thoroughly Good Podcast. She appeared here a few years ago to talk about performing Schubert in...
216: Aida Lahlou
When the leaves begin to turn and shifting clouds reveal brief bursts of autumn light, music like that on pianist Aïda Lahlou’s new album Mi...
215: RLPO CEO Vanessa Reed
Thirty minutes with one of the loveliest leaders in the classical music industry.