Radio & Podcasts
RADIO
RADIO
BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature | Riding the Waves
18 April 2021
In this feature programme marking the ninetieth anniversary of the publication of The Waves, artists reflect on the ways this novel has inspired their own creative work and practice. Pianist Lana Bode, Artistic Director of the Virginia Woolf & Music project, reflects on the musicality of Woolf's language. She reflects on Woolf as a feminist icon and the source of inspiration for her acclaimed album I and Silence.
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour
19 October 2021
Pianist Lana Bode and soprano Samantha Crawford perform extracts from Charlotte Bray’s new song cycle Crossing Faultlines.
PODCASTS
PODCASTS
From the Red House | dream.risk.sing
18 April 2021
Soprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lana Bode join Dr Lucy Walker to discuss collaborating on a remarkable project: dream.risk.sing. Their forthcoming recital and CD (with Delphian Records) focusses on women's voices. It is a programme of music mainly by female composers, and of texts by women (the project is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England). The CD will include a newly-commissioned set of songs by Charlotte Bray, setting texts by Nicki Jackowska, and the project as a whole aims to tell stories from all aspects of women's lives, from motherhood to the workplace to the legacies passed down the generations. Tune in to hear more about this exciting new project, the inspiration behind it, and the huge potential to explore further women's stories in song. Plus, as usual, some terrific songs for the Podcast playlist.
Music Works | dream.risk.sing
15 October 2021
Pianist Lana Bode and soprano Samantha Crawford discuss their exciting new project examining how women and their lived experience are portrayed in music, and describe how their innovative approach to programming brings a new song cycle to this year’s Oxford Lieder Festival in a world premiere exploring mentorship, discrimination, and female ambition.
