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Mid-year Illuminations Series: In The Realm of the Senses: (Love, Lust and the Whole Damn Thing)

Presented by Peter Dodds.  Broadcast 31/08/2025 and repeated 05/09/2025 Crooner Bob Merrill opined that “love makes the world go round”, and this week’s Illuminations is devoted to the love-lorn and the love-torn. From the orgasmic excesses of Tristan and Isolde, to the regrets (they had a few), o…

Mid-Year Illuminations Series: Are You Having A Larf? A Look at Comedy in Classical Music

Presented by Peter Dodds. Broadcast 24/08/2025 4-5pm.  Repeated 29/08/2025 3-4pm This week in Illuminations, Peter Dodds takes a look at all things risible in classical music, and discovers just how complex and deadly serious comedy in music really is. Or just deadly. From the euphonious Portsmout…

Mid-year Illuminations Series: Schmaltz, Glorious Schmaltz! (Much Maligned, But Secretly Yummy)

Presented by Peter Dodds. Broadcast 17/08/2025 4-5pm.  Repeated 22/08/2025 3-4pm When does a fabulous melody become just schmaltz? And how does the Yiddish word for rendered chicken fat have anything to do with music anyway? On Illuminations this week Peter Dodds is going to dive into a musical sm…

Mid-year Illuminations Series: Maurice Ravel's 150th Anniversary Part 2

Presented by Felicity Cronan. Broadcast 10/08/2025 4-5pm.  Repeated 15/08/2025 3-4pm The composer Maurice Ravel was born 150 years ago in the Basque country to a French father and a Spanish mother. These and many other influences are discernible in his music. Ravel was a painstaking but not prolif…

Mid-year Illuminations Series: Maurice Ravel's 150th Anniversary Part 1

Presented by Felicity Cronan. Broadcast 03/08/2025 4-5pm.  Repeated 08/08/2025 3-4pm The composer Maurice Ravel was born 150 years ago in the Basque country to a French father and a Spanish mother. These and many other influences are discernible in his music. Ravel was a painstaking but not prolif…