7 episodes

The veteran BBC presenter and journalist RHOD SHARP was cut off from the work he loved by an accelerated retirement at the instant of the first Covid lockdowns. Could podcasts keep his listeners in the conversation?

The RHODcasts Rhod Sharp

    • Arts
    • 4.9 • 111 Ratings

The veteran BBC presenter and journalist RHOD SHARP was cut off from the work he loved by an accelerated retirement at the instant of the first Covid lockdowns. Could podcasts keep his listeners in the conversation?

    The Band Played On

    The Band Played On

    What was the prevailing sound on the Titanic? Light music, and lots of it. In The Band Played On, Tony Staveacre and Rhod Sharp recreate the musical voyage of SS Titanic, with a pickup band from the Savage Club of Bristol performing numbers from the White Star line songbook. 

    • 45 min
    Summon The Heroes: Keith Lockhart of The Boston Pops

    Summon The Heroes: Keith Lockhart of The Boston Pops

    In 2020, a summer of no Olympics and precious little else because of lockdown, the conductor KEITH LOCKHART tells RHOD SHARP how 80 members of the Boston Pops came together from home in a YouTube performance of John Williams' Olympic anthem Summon The Heroes. (recorded June 2020)

    • 32 min
    Music Made Me: The Allan Schiller Story: Part 1

    Music Made Me: The Allan Schiller Story: Part 1

    In the first part of this audiobook, internationally renowned pianist Allan Schiller looks back on 1961 when at the age of 18 he was selected for the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire.

    • 40 min
    Music Made Me: The Allan Schiller Story: Part 2

    Music Made Me: The Allan Schiller Story: Part 2

    In this concluding part of his audiobook, the renowned Mozartian Allan Schiller looks back on his student days at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire during the height of the Cold War.  The members of Schiller’s piano trio prepare for the day when they go on the road.

    • 43 min
    A Love Letter to America: Rhod Sharp talks to Jim Naughtie: Part 2

    A Love Letter to America: Rhod Sharp talks to Jim Naughtie: Part 2

    Starting at a party thrown by the Kennedy family at their compound on Martha’s Vineyard and ending with an autumn 2020 encounter in a Scranton, PA. coffee shop with two voters separated by generations and party affiliation, JIM NAUGHTIE weaves more stories of the  changing American body politic while asserting unshakeable faith in human nature. 

    • 47 min
    A Love Letter to America: Rhod Sharp talks to Jim Naughtie: Part 1

    A Love Letter to America: Rhod Sharp talks to Jim Naughtie: Part 1

    Rhod talks to his old friend JAMES (Jim) NAUGHTIE about Jim’s introduction to the country 50 years ago this year and other memories collected in his book On The Road. (Recorded November 2020)

    • 44 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
111 Ratings

111 Ratings

cassiebrown7917 ,

just so happy

just so happy to have found these wonderful Rhodcasts after missing him so much on Up All Night

yrtutryyyt ,

Nobody does it better than Rhod!!

Oh how much I loved listening to Rhod on Up all night!! it was the very happy sound to my sleep for many years from the 90’s into the 2000’s! great radio broadcaster and much missed on the 5 live overnight schedule ( oh why oh why did the BBC let him go??) but very happy to have found him on here and have enjoyed the first few episodes I have listened to so far 😊

the6six ,

Rhod

Spent most of my adult life listening to this chap overnight, brilliant that he’s back. Five stars for me.

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