A land without music?

A land without music?

Sound World

Episodes 23
Avg. Duration 48m
Activity Dormant
Since Nov 2024
Latest Episode Sep 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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67%
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About This Podcast

Is our musical culture facing an existential threat? With ever smaller numbers of young people learning instruments, the gradual erasing of music from state education and years of declining funding, things may be worse than you think. Sound World investigates the state of music today and looks at what we can do to safeguard it for future generations.

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S1E23 Music and Health

Sep 15, 2025 34m

This episode of A land without music? is about the extraordinary effect that the arts and music in particular can have on our physical and mental health. We hear from Daisy Fancourt, professor of…

S1E22 The Jörg Widmann Interview: Part 2

Sep 02, 2025 38m

A land without music? Episode 22 This episode of A land without music? is the second part of our interview with composer, clarinetist, conductor and all round force of nature, Jörg Widmann. Written…

S1E21 The Jörg Widmann Interview: Part 1

Aug 25, 2025 53m

A land without music? Episode 21 This episode of A land without music? is the first of a 2 part interview with  composer, clarinetist and conductor Jörg Widmann. As a composer, his music ranges from…

S1E20 The Sally Beamish Interview

Aug 12, 2025 1h 7m

A land without music? Today’s episode is a full length interview with a British composer whose works include symphonies, concertos and chamber pieces, but who also looks beyond the classical…

S1E19 Funding The Arts

Jul 28, 2025 42m

A land without music? In today's episode of A land without music? we’re talking about arts funding. This is particularly relevant at the moment with an ongoing government commissioned independent…

S1E18 The Sadie Harrison Interview

Jul 20, 2025 1h 21m

A land without music? Episode 18 of A land without music? is one of our bonus full-length interviews and our guest is Sadie Harrison a composer, archeologist and gardener. Her music is wide ranging…

S1E17 Composers Today: crossing the divide

Jun 30, 2025 36m

A land without music? New music is central to the survival of classical music as a vital, living art form. Without new repertoire it becomes mere history, a kind of musical museum exhibit.  In…

S1E16 The Evelyn Glennie Interview

Jun 16, 2025 1h 18m

A land without music? Today’s episode of A land without music? is another of our bonus, full length interview episodes. Our guest was the world’s first full-time solo percussionist. She’s released…

S1E15 Classical Music Today

Jun 02, 2025 33m

A land without music? In this episode of A land without music?,  we’re focusing on classical music - it’s image, how it presents itself and how it relates to the modern world. With guests Sally…

S1E14 The Iain McGilchrist Interview Part 2

Apr 28, 2025 51m

This episode features the second half of our interview with psychiatrist, neuroscientist, literary scholar and author of The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist. It's a wide ranging interview,…

S1E13 The Iain McGilchrist Interview

Apr 14, 2025 48m

This episode features the first half of our interview with psychiatrist, neuroscientist, literary scholar and author of The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist. We’ve decide to put this out…

S1E12 The Peter Flach Interview

Mar 31, 2025 1h 16m

This is another of our bonus episodes featuring one of the full length interviews that we recorded for the main strand of A land without music?. Following on from our last episode in which our guests…

S1E11 Technology and AI

Mar 17, 2025 44m

What are the dangers posed by AI and what opportunities does it bring? What does it mean for music and for how we value, understand and experience creativity? Leading AI researcher Prof. Peter Flach…

S1E10 The John Pickard Interview

Mar 03, 2025 1h 17m

Today’s episode is one of the bonus episodes featuring full length versions of the interviews recorded the main strand of A land without music? Our guest is a Bristol based Burnley born composer John…

S1E9 Music in Education Part 3: how we teach music.

Feb 17, 2025 40m

In episode nine of A land without music? our guests discuss the practical issues of teaching music including timetable pressure, the allocation of scarce resources and the multiplicity of genres…

S1E8 The Nico Muhly Interview

Feb 03, 2025 50m

Today's episode is the third of our bonus episodes featuring the full length interviews that we recorded for the main strand of A land without music?  Our guest, Nico Muhly, is an American composer…

S1E7 Music in Education Part 2: what we teach.

Jan 20, 2025 39m

In episode seven of A land without music? our guests talk about what are the essential elements of music that all children should be taught. In a changing world of developing technology,…

S1E6 The thinking behind the series

Jan 06, 2025 13m

Episode six is a special short episode made in response to emails we’ve received asking about the motivating factors behind the making of A land without music? Those who have heard earlier episodes…

S1E5 The Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason Interview

Dec 23, 2024 58m

Today’s episode is the second of our bonus episodes featuring full length versions of the interviews that we recorded for the main strand of A land without music? Our guest is Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason,…

S1E4 Music in Eduction Part 1: what children gain from music.

Dec 09, 2024 34m

In episode four of A land without music? our guests talk about what music education brings to children. Musicians will instinctively understand the huge social and developmental benefits of music;…

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A land without music? has published 23 episodes since November 2024, covering topics in Arts, Music.

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