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Front Row: Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

12/07/2022

Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Oscar-winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on her upcoming BBC Proms concerts.

Oscar-winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on her upcoming BBC Proms concerts, including the first Gaming Prom. Plus the new National Plan for Music Education.

Oscar winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir talks about her new commission for the BBC Proms, inspired by political division, and the difference between writing for films and games, ahead of the first BBC Prom devoted to gaming music. 

To discuss the government's National Plan for Music Education for schools in England, Tom is joined by Catherine Barker from United Learning, Colin Stuart from the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and Jimmy Rotheram, a music teacher at Feversham Primary Academy in Bradford. 

Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert Weide on his decades long friendship with the American novelist Kurt Vonnegut, which has resulted in his new feature documentary film, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time. 

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Timothy Prosser

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