Covid-19 may have cancelled this year's Eurovision, but that doesn't mean the politics of the contest aren't on show in a different way

Little Richard’s joyful exuberance changed the nature of music

Conducting has long been the province of powerful men. But as the #MeToo movement comes to classical music, can an industry steeped in its ways change?

Lines in England’s unofficial national anthem confused contemporaries and we are not faring much better

A new study prompts us to ask what in music deserves an evolutionary or physiological explanation, and what is better explained by the individual cultures we live in

Including a Beethoven Weekender

From Thatcher-loving Spice Girls to the rise and fall of Grime4Corbyn, the place of pop music in modern British politics has a long and complex history

Plus the Choir of Clare College at St John’s Smith Square

After a successful career writing songs for Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers has just released his first album. But what is it like to be ‘silent’ partner in a songwriting collaboration with a megastar—and how do you strike out on your…

Keaveny's 6Music breakfast show was warm and genuinely funny. After more than a decade, he is moving to a new slot—and spoke to Prospect just before the first as live pilot

Ivan Hewett on what classical music lovers like Roger Scruton get wrong

But are they monsters or genuises?