Tom Service is a familiar voice to BBC Radio 3 listeners, the station on which he has presented Music Matters since 2003 and his own programme The Listening Service, in which he breaks down how music ...

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's digital editor and staff writer, editing and writing on all styles of music across both the website and print magazine. She has also written for titles including the ...

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Michael Church has spent much of his career in newspapers as a literary and arts editor, and was one of the founding editors of the Independent on Sunday. He is a former television critic of The Times ...

James Southall is a conductor, pianist and coach with the Welsh National Opera. He has also worked with leading opera companies and orchestras including English Touring Opera, Sinfonia Cymru, ...

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Stephen Johnson is a critic and writer for BBC Music Magazine, with work also published in The Independent, The Guardian and Gramophone. He is a regular contributor on BBC Radio 3, 4 and the World ...

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the ...

What are the lyrics to the Greek national anthem, Hymn to Liberty, in English? The Greek national anthem has become synonymous with the Olympic Games ever since it was played at the first modern ...