BBC Music Day: The Power of Music

Six brand new monologues developed and produced by BBC Writersroom celebrating the transformative power of music.

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How six emerging writers got their first commissions from the BBC.
BBC Music Day 2017

A UK-wide celebration of music that unites people through their love of music.
UnRaveling by Jan Carson

Dementia loosens a pianist’s grip on Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. With Liam Neeson.
After Exile by Grace Knight

An uncompromising woman finds a new friend in a Boccherini musical hallucination.
The Boxer’s Epiphany by Salim Allybokus

Brahm’s piece Lullaby is an unwelcome guest in the boxing ring. Starring Kayvan Novak.
Orchestral Groupies with Shaved Heads by Emily De Dakis

Tamsin Greig stars, defying the orchestra for groupies with Saint-Saёns Clarinet Sonata.
Kilburn Passion by Amy Ng

Daniel Mays plays a broken man coaxed back to life by Bach’s Passion in a tube station.
Movement by Ross Dunsmore

A lover unlocks her relationship in the silence between Stravinsky’s Petrushka movements.

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