Elizabeth Alker

Present @bbcradio3 Classical Live & Unclassified / @notablepod / live with Terry🐕 + @jamesleesley / Author ‘Everything We Do Is Music’ @faberbooks 2025

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

📣 A little bit of news from me 📣

I’ve written a book !! 😮😮

It’s about some really important people from the 20th century avant-garde who’ve had a massive impact on the way your favourite pop music is made.

I met some super cool people (see pics for a couple of highlights) and went on a little adventure to see some very interesting places.

It’s been a joy and a privilege to work with @FaberBooks to make this happen. Cover by Robbie Porter. It comes out in August….. Pre-order and info: https://t.co/CPXmpqOuJW

[Ian Skelly @Ianskellyradio3]

Back @wigmore_hall for more live music on Classical Live @elizabethalker @BBCRadio3 from the hall’s 125th anniversary festival with soprano @SampsonCarolyn and @jpianomiddleton. A gorgeous set of songs either composed or published the year Wigmore hall opened. Join me at 1pm.

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

Had a lovely week listening to A LOT of radio and picking some real gems for @BBCRadio4’s Pick of the Week. Listen today 18:15 📻

Highlights from @giles_fraser exploring Bob Dylan’s faith in Beyond Belief and the late Andy Kershaw takes us back 60 years to Manchester’s Free Trade Hall with the man who served rock’s most famous heckle.

Also Kevin Le Gendre pays tribute to Miles Davis on @bbcradio3’s The Essay @reducedlisten, @BBCNuala finds ways to feel wonder in @BBCWomansHour with @nataliefee 🌳 and Guy Garvey tells hilarious anecdotes from his teenage years @BBC6Music. Roger McGough reads poems and talks to Front Row about the @southbankcentre’s excellent Poet In Every Port initiative and there’s something strange happening of the coast of Cornwall @BBCCornwall 🌊

[Sam Jackson @classicjacko]

The idea that great art might improve your wellbeing shouldn't be a surprise to any of us, of course, but it's still brilliant to see this research from @ucl being covered today: https://t.co/PI5efKzinQ

[Klang Signals @KlangSignals]

Great to hear @elizabethalker talk about the new album from @abulmogard & @blackknoll “Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun” on her @BBCRadio3 “Unclassified” show. Replay: https://t.co/MnUMdN2g6S

#ambient #electronicmusic #dronemusic #modularsynth #bowedguitar

[Robert Ames @robertamesmusic]

Free & Equal Vol. 1 (curated by me) and Free & Equal Vol. 2 (curated by @elizabethalker) are available to stream now!

https://t.co/QjkoT7ExIK
https://t.co/Qqsk1ZjYAe

Brought to life by Yulia Mahr & @maxrichtermusic at @Richter_Mahr all profits go to Médecins Sans Frontières.

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

@TruckerSpence @BBCRadio3 Hurrayy !!

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

Classical Live today from 1pm on @BBCRadio3 with Rachmaninov’s 3rd piano concerto just after 2…. Who’s with me?

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

@DennisGran19399 @BBCRadio3 Hello !!

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

@lottebettsdean @RoyalPhilSoc @chrisglynn00 @BBCRadio3 Loved it !!

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Elizabeth Alker has won the RPS Storytelling Award for her book Everything We Do Is Music, joining the dots between classical and pop music. 🥂

https://t.co/gDOyMR2d1U

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

What an absolute honour to win the @RoyalPhilSoc Storytelling Award 🏆

I really hoped my book, Everything We Do Music, would celebrate the brilliant minds of classical music and pop and open the door to classical music for people who think it might not be for them (just as @BBCRadio3 does every day). To be recognised by the RPS really does mean the world ❤️

@FaberBooks

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

@Troyvisitor @RoyalPhilSoc Thank you Helen x

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

What an absolute honour to win the @RoyalPhilSoc Storytelling Award 🏆

I really hoped my book, Everything We Do Music, would celebrate the brilliant minds of classical music and pop and open the door to classical music for people who think it might not be for them (just as @BBCRadio3 does every day). To be recognised by the RPS really does mean the world ❤️

@FaberBooks

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

@classicjacko @RoyalPhilSoc @southbankcentre @BBCRadio3 Thank you Sam 🙌 I’m still stunned 🤯

The aftershow was epic too…

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

We are very pleased that both Elizabeth Alker and Ian Leslie have been shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize Shortlist.

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

@AsterFuture @PenderynPrize Thank you! X

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

Very honoured to be shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize @PenderynPrize alongside these superstars. It’s gonna be a cracking do at the Laugharne Festival next week….

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

*for the official Coca-cola advert to clarify

[Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker]

The incredible Suzanne Ciani, 5-time Grammy Award nominee, synth pioneer, creator of the sound of a Coca-cola bottle opening and the first woman to score a Hollywood film (The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981) was my guest on Unclassified on @BBCRadio3 last night. And for International Women’s Day we had a super all-female playlist. Listen here: https://t.co/oezROWGJXt