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BBC Radio 3,

2018

Clemency Burton-Hill explores the impact of technology on creativity. Technology may help us to be more productive, but does it make our ideas better?

The Dvorak Statement

BBC Radio 3,

2017

Mahan Esfahani explores the history of African American Classical Music for BBC Radio 3.

Mission Harpsichord

BBC Radio 3,

2015

From the "skeletons copulating on a tin roof" jibes of conductor Sir Thomas Beecham to its unfavourable characterisation as the ideal instrument of the Addams Family, the harpsichord is an often misunderstood instrument - sometimes dividing audiences. Harpsichord virtuoso Mahan Esfahani heads off on a personal journey to uncover the instrument's chequered history, why the people who play it are not always its best advocates, and how this ancient instrument has a very modern face too.

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