Charlotte Green's Culture Club: Recent Episodes
Charlotte Green's Culture Club
The young Lithuanian talks about working with Gustavo Dudamel and the challenges of being a female conductor.
It's a literature special on the Culture Club. Charlotte Green meets three of today's most popular writers.
The A-list movie music composer tells Charlotte about composing for 007's latest outing.
John Suchet talks to the Scottish violinist and the American trumpeter who has written a concerto for her. And Charlotte meets the ever popular Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi.
Charlotte Green meets the celebrated actress who is currently starring in the play, Ticking. Charlotte also talks to the extraordinary left-hand pianist who has recently released his debut album, Solo.
Charlotte Green meets the campaigning actress – who's hosting a concert on 20 October to raise funds for the Nepalese earthquake relief – and film composer Harry Gregson-Williams talks about his work on Ridley Scott's The Martian.
This week's guests include the legendary rock star, the most successful living British composer, and the Samoan/Kiwi family vocal ensemble.
In a packed podcast, Anne-Marie Minhall meets the Australian masterchef, the brilliant British actress, and the English international cricketer.
Both the legendary pianist and the popular author talk to Anne-Marie Minhall about their newly published books.
Charlotte talks to the exciting, new music director of the Royal Ballet, Koen Kessels. He chats about the new ballet season, which includes his first project, conducting Kenneth MacMillan's groundbreaking, classic production of Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet.
The British actor Simon Pegg talks to Anne-Marie Minhall - sitting in for Charlotte - about his new film 'Absolutely Anything'. And Schools Minister Nick Gibb talks about a new project to introduce children to classical music.
Classic FM presenter John Suchet talks to Charlotte about his superb new book, the story of the feuding Strauss dynasty and their place in Vienna.
The great film music composer talks to Charlotte about his life in movie music, and his new album of piano arrangements of his greatest works.
Anne-Marie Minhall - sitting in for Charlotte Green - talks to the Hollywood actor about his latest role as a boxer in Southpaw, and his love of music. And composer Will Todd also chats about his family opera, inspired by Lewis Carroll, which returns to Holland Park.
Anne-Marie Minhall, sitting in for Charlotte Green, talks to the legendary cricketer, as well as Classic FM's new Composer in Residence and the maestro behind the Bristol Proms.
Charlotte meets the brilliant British actress currently starring in the musical Gypsy in London's West End, and the American star of Dead Poet's Society, Robert Sean Leonard, who is appearing in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Charlotte Green talks to the great soprano about her role in Cosi Fan Tutte, and to the guitarist about his new album made with friends.
Charlotte Green chats with Ian McKellen about playing Sherlock Holmes, to Karl Jenkins about his new knighthood, and to actress and writer Meera Syal about her latest novel.
"In front of the camera there shouldn’t be any technique," Ian McKellen tells Classic FM's Charlotte Green (Sunday 14 June 2015), "there shouldn’t be any projection, there should be just being, just being the character, existing and the camera will pick up every detail because it’s so close. That doesn’t apply when your in the theatre..."
The great British actor tells Charlotte Green that he's not afraid of talking about the 'Scottish play' in the dressing room.
Ian McKellen tells Charlotte Green (Classic FM, Sunday 14 June 2015) what it was like to play the iconic detective, "losing his mind, losing his memory discovering his humanity..."
"I love the excitement of a live performance," the actor told Charlotte Green on Classic FM (Sunday 14 June 2015), "and when you get a total master who rehearses eight hours a day for our benefit so that the music can just flow out, that’s so overwhelming and beyond any endeavour that I've ever put into my work."
"I now find that most places in the world there’ll be somebody in the room, or on the subway, or in the street, who recognises me as the actor who pretends to be Gandalf or Magneto," Ian McKellen told Charlotte Green's Culture Club on Classic FM (Sunday 14 June). "And that’s very nice for me because it’s a friendly face and something in common, and I feel less shy so its been a real boost to my confidence."
Charlotte Green meets Marin Alsop who talks about her celebrated career as a pioneering woman conductor, and Stephen Mangan comes into the Culture Club to chat about his role in Birthday - a new drama series on Sky Arts.
Charlotte talks to the great Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel about his role in the classic musical, Fiddler on the Roof. And Patrick Hawes chats with Charlotte about his Great War Symphony.
Steven Isserlis CBE talks to Charlotte Green about his life in music, his Stradivarius cello, and his forthcoming concerts of Czech chamber music at the Wigmore Hall.
The Germany-based Canadian musician, best known for his first MC and electro albums, is also a pianist, producer, and songwriter. This year, 2015, he released Advantage Points, a piano and chamber piece with the Kaiser Quartet, to much acclaim.
The world-renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim speaks to Charlotte about his life and music, while violinist Tasmin Little looks ahead to her forthcoming 50th birthday.
Katherine Jenkins joins Charlotte to discuss the forthcoming V.E. Day at 70 concert at the Royal Albert Hall, and her role as the new Forces' Sweetheart.
This week, Charlotte was joined by two talented soloists, the violinist Ray Chen and the trumpeter Alison Balsom . Chen discusses his new role as one of the judges of the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. And Alison Balsom tells Charlotte about her current tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and her upcoming projects, including a performance at this year’s Bristol Proms.
Pianist, writer, painter, composer, and all round genius Stephen Hough talks to Charlotte Green about his new album of Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
Charlotte Green talks to the brilliant choreographer Matthew Bourne about his new tour of The Car Man, and to Stephen Hough about his new album of Grieg's piano music. And John Suchet meets the actor Alan Rickman to talk about his foray into directing with 'A Little Chaos'.
Elizabeth McGovern - best known as Cora, Duchess of Grantham from 'Downton Abbey' - joins Charlotte to talk about her new role in the film, 'Woman in Gold'. And pianist Chilly Gonzales talks about his efforts to make music as entertaining as possible.
It's a Cinderella special as Charlotte meets the Fairy Godmother herself and the director of Disney's Cinderella.
The British actress and star of 'Cinderella' says she listened to Mozart and violin concertos throughout her pregnancies and her children came out alert, relaxed and 'unbelievably clever'. She also likes Edith Piaf and folk rock band The Lumineers.
It's a literary special this week on Charlotte Green's Culture Club, as Charlotte meets bestselling writers Philip Pullman and Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Alexander Armstrong, sitting in for Charlotte Green, talks to great British actresses - Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, currently appearing in 'Suite Francaises' and Gemma Arterton talking about her new movie, The Voices, a dark comedy about a likeable guy and his evil talking pets.
On this week's Culture Club podcast, Charlotte Green is joined by the acclaimed British actor Terence Stamp. He talks about the re-release of the 1967 classic Far from the Madding Crowd. Charlotte also speaks to guitarist Miloš Karadaglic about performing at the Bristol Proms this June.