Making a life in music

Because everyone knows that playing with other people is the best part of being a musician. The excellent (and hilarious) violinist Pekka Kuusisto is our guest for this episode on musical collaboration, where we learned how it feels to be a sixth desk violinist. 

Jazz trumpeter Alexandra Ridout is our guest for this totally spontaneous episode (in which Sam, predictably, is the most chillaxed member of the BBCYM podcast team). Does anyone... sing? 

In This Episode, You'll Learn: How his songs represent some of his values, like kindness and how we need to remember to be more kind in our interactions with each other. Learning persistance and his drive to keep going and never give up when faced with difficulty. Why he wrot ...  Show more

Lead singer of Counting Crows, Adam Duritz, stops by the studio for the first time to share how he got asked to create a song for 'Shrek,' why he almost quit music, what inspired their song "Mr. Jones" and more! Then, find out the things members of the show admitted they thought ...  Show more

Bernie Krause was a successful musician as a young man, playing with rock stars like Jim Morrison and George Harrison in the 1960s and '70s. But then one day, Bernie heard a sound unlike anything he'd ever encountered and it completely overtook his life. He quit the music busines ...  Show more

Welcome to The Hustle - a regular series of inspiring interviews with some of the most interesting and influential people in music, media, sport and culture, presented by legendary DJ and Grammy-Award-winning music producer Roger Sanchez. Roger sits down with Simon Dunmore in the ...  Show more