Recent Work
The Hills Are Alive
With The Kanneh-Masons
Britain’s most gifted musical family, Nottingham’s Kanneh-Masons, visit Austria to walk in the footsteps of Hollywood’s most famous musical family, the Von Trapps from The Sound of Music.
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For this one off special, all nine members of the Kanneh-Mason family (including Mum Kadie and Dad Stuart) visit the key movie locations and explore the incredible story behind the film. Within the documentary, the seven young Kanneh-Masons also perform their own arrangements of iconic music from the great soundtrack, including ‘Climb Every Mountain’, ‘My Favourite Things’, ‘Do Re Mi’ and ‘Edelweiss’.
A Musical Family Christmas With The Kanneh-Masons
Spend Christmas with the wonderfully talented Kanneh-Mason family…seven brothers and sisters (aged 12 to 25) who are taking the classical music world by storm. Coming home to Nottingham to celebrate, the family decorate the house, enjoy festive food, practice music, reminisce about Christmases past and play charades and games. Their unique seasonal celebration is an exciting fusion of family traditions from the UK, Sierra Leone and the Caribbean. And of course they perform their favourite Xmas music such as ‘Mary’s Boy Child’, ‘We Three Kings’, ‘Santa Baby’, ‘Sugar Plum Fairy’ and ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’.
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Former Spice Girl Geri ‘Ginger’ Horner looks back on the 1990s and reflects on her own incredible journey from working-class Watford girl to international superstar. She describes it as a decade of hope and opportunity that gave young people the freedom to be themselves and break down barriers. The music and art scenes exploded, and suddenly Britain was the place to be. Britpop and Girl Power conquered the charts, and Geri herself became the iconic face of Cool Britannia in her famous Union Jack dress.
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Geri’s 1990s:
My Drive To Freedom
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Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Founder and artistic director of the Chineke! orchestra – Britain’s first black and minority ethnic orchestra - double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE is passionate about rediscovering the lost works of black classical music. One of her inspirations has been black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, whose most celebrated composition ‘Hiawatha's Wedding Feast’ was a huge classical hit in Britain and the USA in the first half of the 20th Century. But despite his early success, Coleridge-Taylor suffered racism throughout his career, received few royalties for his work and died penniless aged only 37. On her journey Chi-chi visits locations central to the composer's life, including his home in Croydon and his grave in Surrey. Travelling to the USA, she discovers that his fame still survives there through schools and organisations named after him in Washington DC, Kentucky and Maryland.
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