Explore the story of WW1 through music, in new recordings and moments from the archive.
Rob Cowan talks to Jay Winter about Russia in WW1
Kate Kennedy on Ivor Gurney from Composer of the Week 'Schubert's Heir'
David Owen Norris looks at music in the USA in WW1
Rob Cowan talks to Jay Winter about American music and WW1
Kate Kennedy talks about Ivor Gurney from Composer of the Week 'Gurney in Love'
Lyse Doucet talking about her Essay 'Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort'
David Owen Norris talks to Dr Santanu Das about the experience of Indian Soldiers in WW1
Rob Cowan talks to Jay Winter about WW1, Empires and other Fronts
Pinchas Zukerman on a memorial concert for Cananda's War effort (Photo by Paul Labelle)
From Composer of the Week 'Gurney Loses His Freedom'
David Owen Norris takes a look at the names on the Royal College of Music War Memorial
Rob Cowan talks to Jay Winter about Artists responses to WW1
From Composer of the Week 'No Escape'
A clip from the Free Thinkingβs Landmark programme on The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Welte Mignon Piano Rolls - Fantasia on Beethoven's 'Ruinen von Athen' played by Busoni
Dr Kate Kennedy previews her postcard of musical London in 1913, for In Tune (10 Jan).
Charles Emmerson, author of '1913', looks ahead to Essential Classics' January WW1 week.
