Author Profile: Richard Fawkes

Articles written by Richard Fawkes

Tony Stephens, a member of the 1953 choir of Westminster Abbey, pictured with his Coronation medal and letter from the Palace.

24 May 2013

Richard Fawkes

Choristers of the Coronation: Radio 4, 25 May

The 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation will be marked with a documentary about the 200 boy choristers who took part in the service which is ‘nothing more, nothing less, than the memories of those boy choristers.’

28 January 2013

Richard Fawkes

Aled Jones leaves The Choir chair vacant

After seven years presenting Radio 3’s weekly choral programme The Choir, presenter Aled Jones, who moved to ITV’s Daybreak sofa last year, has left the programme. The presenter gap left by Jones’ departure is being filled this month and next by six distinguished luminaries of the choral world, each of whom will present a special one-off programme that focuses on their particular choral interests.

Howard Goodall: Musical guide
Photograph: Patrick Rowe

16 December 2012

Richard Fawkes

Story time: Howard Goodall’s The Story of Music

With a new book and tv series, Howard Goodall has set out to make sense of the jargon that so often confuses and disengages music lovers of all genres, writes Richard Fawkes