Healing Musicians
A 5-part series for The Essay, BBC Radio 3, talking to five musicians about injury and overcoming it: October 2024.
FIVE CELLOs: lost and found
A 5-part series for The Essay, Radio 3. What happens when a musical instrument is destroyed, silenced or recovered? Whose voice does it hold? And what can it tell us of past losses, and future possibilities? October 2023.
Daisy Dunn reflects on the series in The Spectator, 23 October 2023. Read here.
‘If you come to the series doubting the importance of music and the inseparability, as Kennedy described it, of musician and instrument, these accounts will irreparably change your mind.’
Sunday Features / documentaries
The Cello and the Nightingale. 19 May 2024.
From Convent to Concert Hall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ldftk/p02ldf9f
Dawn on the Somme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07j3m4w
The Ruhleben Legacy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00013y8
Special Features
Shakespeare and Music (with Samuel West from the RSC): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0785zm9
Britten and the Radio (from Snape Maltings): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09c0nyb
Building a Library
The music of Ethel Smyth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04vsb4l
On Britten’s Winter Words: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b2r2ck
On Elgar recordings: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00009zn
Composer of the Week
On Ivor Gurney: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021ywxx
On composers of the First World War: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048z9c1
Proms plus
On Frank Bridge: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e3r6v2?lang=ga
On Vaughan Williams: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ep8gfx
Discussing Vaughan Williams’ London Symphony with Stephen Johnson and Louise Fryer in the Proms, 2013: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0388pgp
On Lili Boulanger and Elgar (BBC World Service): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bf1jc0
In Tune
Dr Kate Kennedy on the music landscape on the brink of WW1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01np7fw
LONDON – fictional postcard set in 1914 by Dr Kate Kennedy, read by Jonathan Pryce: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01pk3yw
Other
Radio 3 tells story of World War One through its music: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/r3-ww1
Dr Kate Kennedy 