BBC Radio Podcasts from Music and Culture of WW1
Musical Stories - Bechstein Hall
David Owen Norris looks at why Bechstein Hall was forced to change it's name
Gavrilo Princip's Footprints
Maria Margaronis probes the Archduke’s assassin, Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip's, legacy.
The Essay - Music on the Brink: London
Emma Jane Kirby considers the idea of London presenting to the wider world in 1914.
Modernist Moments - London
Tom Service takes a litmus test of the classical music goings-on in London in 1914.
Postcard from London
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from London just before WW1.
Essential Classics - London
Charles Emmerson on London, Elgar's Nimrod and the seeds of decline just beofre WW1.
Essential Classics - St Petersburg.
Historian Charles Emmerson St. Petersburg and the power of the Romanov Tsars.
Essential Classics - Berlin
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Berlin was exciting and modern.
Essential Classics - Paris
Historian Charles Emmerson on how Paris before WW1 might have felt.
Essential Classics - Vienna
Historian Charles Emmerson on how high tradition and modernity collide just before WW1.
Free Thinking - Liberal England
Professor Roy Foster and Nick Cohen
The Essay - St Petersburg
Steve Rosenberg finds a link between 1914’s St. Petersburg and its counterpart of today.
Modernist Moments - St Petersburg
Tom Service uncovers a world of startling sounds in Alexander Scriabin's final composition
Postcard from St. Petersburg.
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.
Free Thinking - Musil's The Man Without Qualities
Margaret Drabble and William Boyd discuss Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities.
Free Thinking - Europe on the Brink of War.
AS Byatt, Neil Brand, Alexandra Harris and Philipp Blom choose artworks form the period.
The Essay - Music on the Brink: Berlin
Stephen Evans reminds us that the German capital on the eve of war was innovative.
Modernist Moments - Berlin
Tom Service introduces Ferrucio Busoni’s Zwei Tanzstűcke Op. 30a.
Postcard from Berlin
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from Berlin charting the music landscape.
The Essay - Music on the Brink: Paris.
Foreign Correspondent Hugh Schofield reimagines the French capital of Maurice Ravel.
Modernist Moments - Paris
Tom Service introduces Stravinsky's Three Japanese Lyrics, first performed in 1914.
Postcard from Paris
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard from an enthusiastic concert goer in Paris.
The Essay - Music on the Brink: Vienna
Bethany Bell evokes both the public face of Austria-Hungary's capital.
Modernist Moments - Vienna
Tom Service with Webern's Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano Op.11.
Postcard from Vienna
Jonathan Pryce reads a fictional postcard set in Vienna just before the outbreak of WW1.
Pat Barker
Writer Pat Barker is fascinated by the First World War. Here she selects music.
Somme
Part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink. Paul Farley journeys down France's sleepiest river.