Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast
1) 223: Mezzo Soprano Katie Bray
What’s the point of pursuing something you can never reach? Hope, apparently.Mezzo-soprano Katie Bray makes a compelling case. Her new album In Search of Youkali explores Kurt Weill’s musical respons...Show More
2) 222: Penelope Appleyard
Discover Penelope Appleyard's Live from London’s festive Jane Austen programme with Zeb Soanes and pianist Jonathan Delbridge: song, domestic music-making, and Regency wit brought to life in an intima...Show More
3) 221: Revere Arts' Elise Brown and Class Ceiling
How do we make the classical music industry inclusive for people from lower socio-economic backgrounds — when even the “comfortable” ones struggle to get a foothold?How does an industry that desperate...Show More
4) 220: Composer and Sound Artist Ruby Colley
Composer and sound artist Ruby Colley releases her new album Hello Halo on 14 November 2025 — a work shaped by field recordings, family archives, and her lifelong conversation with her nonverbal broth...Show More
5) 219: Writer Carole Hayman
Carole Hayman is a writer, director and producer best known for creating the long-running Radio 4 comedy Ladies of Letters, and for her work across theatre, film and television.This conversation explo...Show More
6) 218: Vache Baroque's Betty Makharinsky
Vache Baroque didn’t start with a five-year plan. It started with a can-do attitude. In 2020, soprano-producer Betty Makharinsky and conductor Jonathan Darbourne looked at a locked-down industry and s...Show More
7) 217: Pianist Clare Hammond and Michael Betteridge
Pianist Clare Hammond is no stranger to the Thoroughly Good Podcast. She appeared here a few years ago to talk about performing Schubert in prisons.This time she returns with composer Michael Betterid...Show More
8) 216: Aida Lahlou
When the leaves begin to turn and shifting clouds reveal brief bursts of autumn light, music like that on pianist Aïda Lahlou’s new album Mirrors and Echoes seems to meet the moment — even if you didn...Show More
9) 21: RLPO CEO Vanessa Reed
Thirty minutes with one of the loveliest leaders in the classical music industry.
10) 214: Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen talks candidly about the additive experience of motherhood in this podcast episode recorded on Barbican terrace in mid-September 2025.