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Jess Gillam and Keelan Carew with music fit for a king

Saxophonist and Radio 3 broadcaster Jess Gillam and pianist Keelan Carew are Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe's studio guests as they add the next five tracks, taking us from an east London housing estate to Heaven, via a certain celebrated Norwegian hall of a Mountain King. Producer: Jerome Weathera…

10th June 1605: False Dmitry I enters Moscow and is recognised as tsar following the death of Boris Godunov

False Dmitry asserted that he was Dmitry Ivanovich, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible. With support from Polish nobles, mercenaries, and anti-Godunov factions, he entered Russian territory from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ...

Instructions for the Kind Ones

I’m not an Apple influencer, but a few of you might be listening to this literary podcast on the move—driving or commuting on the subway, many with an iPhone and those AirPods that are sometimes good. And sometimes really bad for certain things. They are good for pushing a heavy beat when you’re ru…

Why Russia Let an Impostor Walk Into Moscow as Tsar

False Dmitry turned rumor into a weapon, using the name of Ivan the Terrible's dead son to seize the Russian throne.This documentary follows the first False Dmitry, usually identified as Grigory Otrepyev, from his flight into Poland-Lithuania to his astonishing entry into Moscow in 1605. We trace h…

Why the Death of One Child Threw Russia Into the Time of Troubles

The mysterious death of Dmitry of Uglich turned a child's tragedy into one of the most dangerous succession crises in Russian history.This documentary follows the events of May 15, 1591, when the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible died from a knife wound in a courtyard at Uglich. Was it an epileptic…

Exporting Russia: Diaghilev's Beginnings

The great Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev didn't have the talents to become an artist or the money to become a patron. His gift was to inspire, facilitate and market artistic projects that were highly colourful and distinctive. In this lecture we follow his early years, when he published The Wor…

Podcast #26 Sergei Prokofiev: Film and Incidental Music #podcast

It's Classical-Discoveries-time and it' back to film music, finally! (For Joe, anyway) This time, Jens and Joe delve into the world of Prokofiev-as film-composer, on whether he's more or less famous for writing film scores than Shostakovich, and why. Along the way, the explore his incidental music,…