The Radio 3 broadcaster on a composer’s inspired garden, oil paintings of motorway bridges and a magical local pubThe broadcaster Elizabeth Alker was born in Rochdale in 1982 and grew up in a musical household; as a child she learned the clarinet, recorder and piano. She studied English at Leeds University and wrote about music for Dazed & Confused before joining the BBC as a researcher in 2005. Alker now hosts Unclassified and the Saturday Breakfast show on BBC Radio 3. Her first book, Everything We Do Is Music, will be published by Faber next year. The second series of Northern Drift, Alker’s BBC Radio 3 programme showcasing the best new poetry and music from the north of England, goes out on Mondays at 9.15pm and is on BBC Sounds. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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