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).
Dr 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.
Website:
www.leahbroad.comSubstack:
Songs of SunriseUnsung: Trailblazing Women Musicians of the Second World War available to pre-order here.
Unheard Heritage:
www.unheardheritage.com