Influential contemporary music maker, once styled the brainiest man in pop. Except the word pop doesnt fit brian eno. He was a member of roxy music in the early 70s, but he went his own way, developing ambient music, audiovisual installations and collaborating with a host of big names, including bowie, u2 and coldplay. His output has been prolific and varied, but what is he musician, composer or an artist impossible to label . Brian eno, welcome to hardtalk. You have got a body of work, musical creativity that spans almost five decades. And yet you have in the past described yourself as an non musician. What do you mean by that . When i started using that term, i had appeared at a point where there was a huge stress on musicianship, and there were bands playing, very things with their backs turned to the audience. I didnt come into music from that route, i did not come into music from learning an instrument and then standing up and writing songs on it. I came out of painting, that is w
Im stephen sackur. My guest today is a hugely influential contemporary music maker, once styled the brainiest man in pop. Except the word pop doesnt fit brian eno. He was a member of roxy music in the early 70s, but then he went his own way, developing ambient music, audiovisual installations and collaborating with a host of big names, including bowie, u2 and coldplay. His output has been prolific and varied, but what is he musician, composer or an artist impossible to label . Brian eno, welcome to hardtalk. You have got a body of work, musical creativity that spans almost five decades. And yet you have in the past described yourself as a non musician. What do you mean by that . When i started using that term, i had appeared at a point where there was a huge stress on musicianship, and there were bands playing, very things with their backs turned to the audience. I didnt come into music from that route, i did not come into music from learning an instrument and then standing up and writ
Whats happening in the year long celebration. Hello, and welcome to hull, the uk City Of Culture. Showcasing the brightest and The Best Of Contemporary Culture has brought us here to hulls cemetery for a Circus Performance with a difference. And continuing our celebration of difference, we meet matt fraser who will be putting his Disability Centre stage to play shakespeares richard iii. Im a deformed actor playing a deformed character for the first time in britain, which is extraordinary that it should be the first but its exciting that i get to do it. We will meet the army of 2017 volunteers giving up their free time for culture. Theres a star man, waiting in the sky. And go on a Trip Down Memory Lane with a spiderfrom mars. Hello, im anne marie tasker, and im the arts and Culture Correspondence for the bbc here in hull and this is kofi smiles. Im the face of hull, chosen by the bbc with a mission, to bring you culture whenever and wherever it happens. Today, we are taking it quite li
Whats happening in the year long celebration. Hello, and welcome to hull, the uk City Of Culture. Showcasing the brightest and The Best Of Contemporary Culture has brought us here to hulls cemetery for a Circus Performance with a difference. And continuing our celebration of difference, we meet matt fraser who will be putting his Disability Centre stage to play shakespeares richard iii. Im a deformed actor playing a deformed character for the first time in britain, which is extraordinary that it should be the first but its exciting that i get to do it. We will meet the army of 2017 volunteers giving up their free time for culture. Theres a star man, waiting in the sky. And go on a Trip Down Memory Lane with a spiderfrom mars. Hello, im anne marie tasker, and im the arts and Culture Correspondence for the bbc here in hull and this is kofi smiles. Im the face of hull, chosen by the bbc with a mission, to bring you culture whenever and wherever it happens. Today, we are taking it quite li
Merkels immigration policy. And, we say goodbye to a performer who transcended his time, david bowie. It is good to have you with us. Tonight, the worstcase scenario for developing a new medication has happened. A clinical drug trial and france has left one man braindead and five others hospitalized in serious condition. They were Healthy People helping to test a new drug to test pain and mood disorders. The portuguese farm firm bial saying they ran the study by the book. On january 7, Healthy Volunteers turned up at this lab to try new painkiller. Within days, it became clear that something was terribly wrong and the trial was hastily called off. The doctor in charge had more bad news for the families. Three of the four patients already have symptoms serious to fear there will be left with irreversible handicaps. That is the best case. It is important to say that we cannot make a definitive prognosis yet. Their condition is being monitored very closely. The French Health minister dism