{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Women of Notes","title":"#6 Ethel Smyth - with Leah Broad, author of 'Quartet'","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3747,"description":"UK-based music researcher and writer Dr. Leah Broad joins me for an entertaining and informative conversation about the larger-than-life British composer, Ethel Smyth (1858-1944).\nDr Leah Broad is an award-winning writer, historian and broadcaster. She wrote the critically acclaimed book Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World, and her next book Unsung: Trailblazing Women Musicians of the Second World War publishes in February 2027. Winner of the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism, Leah has written for outlets including the Financial Times, New Statesman, Guardian and BBC Music Magazine. Selected as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker in 2016, she is often on air discussing music and history, and has appeared as a public speaker at events and venues such as the BBC Proms and Hay Festival. She is also the founder of Unheard Heritage, a recording initiative to revive great, forgotten works for new audiences. She holds a DPhil in musicology from the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.\nWebsite: www.leahbroad.com\nSubstack: Songs of Sunrise\nUnsung: Trailblazing Women Musicians of the Second World War available to pre-order here.\nUnheard Heritage: www.unheardheritage.com\n\nwomenofnotes.substack.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wFbyW8_00TRk4ZXDjswnnf2tRNAVlJ6aouusylJstAo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYTVk/YWI1MThkYzZhZTdi/MjI2NTk1M2RlOTE5/NzJkMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}