creation podcasts: newsnight

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creation podcasts: newsnight

End the working day on a high note with Classic Newsnight with John Brunning bringing you the day's top news stories along with interviews with the world's leading classical artists.

  1. 26/10/2007

    Classic Newsnight Podcast 26-10-07

    The latest edition of the podcast has the usual suspects: resident bookworm, Chris Powling, with three superb books for us to enjoy; alongside the Classic FM doctor, Rob Hicks, who'll be telling us how our genes influence the types of food we reach for - which means I must have the cream bun gene! As well as that, we'll meet the best-travelled busker in the world: violinist David Juritz.Find out which are the most generous, as well as the meanest, cities he visited.

    9 min

  2. 19/10/2007

    Classic Newsnight Podcast 19-10-07

    In this edition of the Classic Newsnight podcast, the tenor, James Gilchrist, talks about his acclaimed recording of "On Wenlock Edge", by Vaughan Williams; Classic FM's resident bookworm, Chris Powling, recommends three thrillers for us to enjoy; And the Classic FM doctor, Rob Hicks, tells us why we should all be eating a lot more garlic.

    11 min

  3. 12/10/2007

    Classic Newsnight Podcast 12-10-07

    In this week's podcast, we learn about the so-called "silver surfers", the over fifties who are becoming increasingly voracious consumers of everything the internet has to offer. Doctor Rob Hicks tells us about World Arthritis Day; Chris Powling choses three children's books for us to enjoy; and Bob Jones heads to Exmoor, to preview this year's Two Moors Festival.

    13 min

  4. 01/10/2007

    Classic Newsnight Podcast 28th September

    Classic FMs resident GP, Rob Hicks, opens this edition of the podcast. Yes, the days are getting shorter and its turning decidedly autumnal, so any day now, we can expect to be hear commercials for flu jabs. But Dr. Rob tells us researchers in the US have conducted a study which casts doubt on the benefits of immunising older people against the disease. After that, we turn our attention to books with Chris Powling, whos been furiously reading paperbacks in order to choose three unmissable ones for us to enjoy. Then, its violins all the way: Madeleine Mitchell tells us about the Red Violin festival, which is an annual fixture in South Wales, while the young Scottish soloist, Nicola Benedetti, discusses her new recording of The Lark Ascending, by Vaughan Williams.

    11 min

  5. 21/09/2007

    Newsnight Podcast 21- 09 - 07

    In this week's podcast, we find out how the Conferation of British Industry has picked itself a fight with family doctors - Classic FM's resident GP, Rob Hicks will explain all; Germaine Greer will tell us about her new biography of Anne Hathaway, entitled "Shakespeare's Wife"; Classic Nesnight's roving reporter, Bob Jones, updates us on the work of "Live Music Now"; and Felicity Lott discusses her love of French song.

    14 min

  6. 07/09/2007

    Classic Newsnight Podcast 07-09-07

    This week, John Brunning speaks to the author Conn Iggulden about his latest creation: "The Dangerous Book For Boys Yearbook". Classic FM's resident GP, Rob Hicks, gives us his opinion on research linking antiperspirants to breast cancer; and we discover how classical music is helping children undergoing investigation for neurological disorders at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

    14 min

  7. 24/08/2007

    Classic Newsnight Podcast 24th August

    In this edition of the Classic Newsnight podcast, Sir Andrew Davis recounts some of his most treasured moments conducting the music of Elgar; we meet identical singing twins from Canada, RyanDan, who not only look alike, but sound pretty similar too; and Bob Jones reports on some extraordinary musical manoeuvres involving one time pop idol Chesney Hawkes, a dozen posh cars and the London Symphony Orchestra. Hard to resist clicking "download", isn't it?

    9 min

  8. 17/08/2007

    Classic Newsnight Podcast 17th August 2007

    In this edition of the Classic Newsnight podcast, we meet the American thriller writer, David Baldacci, whose fifteenth novel is doing very brisk. Classic FM's resident GP, Rob Hicks, tells us why a person's body mass index is now reckoned to be a less reliable indicator of future health problems than previously thought. And we hear from the tenor, Ian Bostridge, about his critically-acclaimed album of Handel arias.

    12 min
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End the working day on a high note with Classic Newsnight with John Brunning bringing you the day's top news stories along with interviews with the world's leading classical artists.

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  • Creador
    Classic FM
  • Años de actividad
    2006 - 2007
  • Episodios
    50
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    © 2006 Creation
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