Elizabeth Alker in Conversation with Mary Anne Hobbs

Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker talks to DJ and music journalist Mary Anne Hobbs about Everything We Do is Music, Alker’s pioneering new book.

Panoramic and insightful, Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, explores the ways in which pop and rock music has been transformed by visionaries of the classical canon. With exclusive interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood, and more, Alker connects musical worlds in a fascinating and detailed mosaic of music history.

Elizabeth Alker is a presenter for BBC Radio 3, where the programmes she works on include Unclassified and Classical Live. She joined the BBC as a researcher for Radio 4 in 2005 and soon after became a reporter and presenter for BBC Radio 6 Music. Everything We Do is Music, published by Faber, is her first book.

Alker will be in conversation with Mary Anne Hobbs, DJ and music journalist who currently presents on BBC Radio 6 Music.

The event will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing.