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The EUNIC London Podcast Series EUNICAST: Meet Visionary Europeans is a brand new podcast series presenting some of Europe’s most talented and respected artists, performers and influencers expressing their opinions on the arts and current affairs and sharing their life stories and artistic influences. A podcast series of EUNIC London (European National Institutes for Culture) presents seven episodes featuring in-depth interviews with leading European personalities from the field of arts, music, arts management and social sciences. In a discussion with award-winning BBC journalist Joe Lynam, they talk about the current situation and its impact on society in terms of their professional field and reflect on future developments. Interviewees include: the Czech-British acclaimed journalist, TV presenter and former Director of the BBC Worlds Service and the Barbican Centre, Sir John Tusa; the Spanish ballet dancer and artistic director of the English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo; the German curator and historian of science and Director of the History of Science Museum at Oxford University, Silke Ackermann; the Estonian Grammy Award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi; the French lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art and art collector Catherine Petitgas; the Austrian Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra, Tomo Keller and the Lithuanian acclaimed artist, composer, musician and performer Lina Lapelyte. The EUNIC London (European National Institutes for Culture) podcast series is prepared under the leadership of the Czech Centre London and in production collaboration with the Extraudionary. The first two episodes will be released on the 8th of April 2021 via Spotify. Stay tuned!
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Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
Wednesday Apr 07, 2021
EPISODE 1
In this first episode we speak with Czech native and one of Britain’s foremost journalists, Sir John Tusa. Best known as a BBC News presenter, John is also an author, historian, arts curator, and music lover. In addition to a successful broadcaster career, he was managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Arts Centre, and chaired University of the Arts London, the Wigmore Hall and the EU Youth Orchestra.
Besides what he has learned from his leadership and journalistic experiences, John also talks about his family and Czech heritage, how he balances this with the affinity for his adopted country of the UK, and how to this day he’s kept a sense of what it means to be European despite the turbulence of Brexit.
Presented by Joe Lynam
Running Time: 39 minutes
This episode was kindly supported by the Czech Centre.
EUNICAST: Meet Visionary Europeans is a brand new podcast where we catch up with some of Europe’s most talented and respected artists, performers and influencers, and get their opinions on the arts and current affairs as well as their life stories and artistic influences.
EUNICAST has been prepared by EUNIC London under the leadership of the Czech Centre. EUNIC stands for the European Union National Institutes for Culture and its goal is to share knowledge and resources in order to promote greater cooperation and develop cultural partnerships between European nations and UK organisations. EUNIC London is a network of cultural institutes and embassies of EU member states based in London.
About the EUNICAST: Meet Visionary Europeans
Premysl Pela, initiator and leader of the EUNICAST podcast series
Director of the Czech Centre and co-President of EUNIC London
“The Meet Visionary Europeans podcast series has been on my mind for some time and the execution of Brexit and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has just expedited my decision to go ahead with the project. The main objective of the podcast series was to enrich and uplift our spirits through positive and inspirational testimonies and personal life stories of some of the most accomplished personalities, European and British visionaries, as well as to address and debate most pressing issues of our current and in many respects historical times”.
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