A land without music?
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.
Latest Episode
The Sally Beamish Interview (12.08.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Funding The Arts 28.07.2025
- The Sadie Harrison Interview 20.07.2025
- Composers Today: crossing the divide 30.06.2025
- The Evelyn Glennie Interview 16.06.2025
- Classical Music Today 02.06.2025
- The Iain McGilchrist Interview Part 2 28.04.2025
- The Iain McGilchrist Interview 14.04.2025
- The Peter Flach Interview 31.03.2025
- Technology and AI 17.03.2025
- The John Pickard Interview 03.03.2025
- Music in Education Part 3: how we teach music. 17.02.2025
- The Nico Muhly Interview 03.02.2025
- Music in Education Part 2: what we teach. 20.01.2025
- The thinking behind the series 06.01.2025
- The Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason Interview 23.12.2024
- Music in Eduction Part 1: what children gain from music. 09.12.2024
- The Jess Gillam Interview 25.11.2024
- Discovering music 11.11.2024
- How we value music 08.11.2024
