Fiona Talkington

Fiona Talkington is a broadcaster, writer, presenter, and curator best known in the UK for her work on BBC Radio 3 where she has been a presenter since 1989.

She is best known today as a founding presenter (1999) of the Sony Gold Award-winning programme Late Junction, and is internationally recognized for her wide ranging knowledge of music including classical, world, traditional, jazz, expermimental, electronica and choral music.

For BBC Radio 3 she has presented and produced a wide variety of programmes such as Sony Gold Award-winning Late Junction, Composer of the Week (working with trumpeter John Wallace on a notable series on John Philip Sousa and Scott Joplin), Radio 3 Requests, the BBC Proms, Breakfast, Sacred and Profane, Afternoon on 3 and Womad. She is also particularly known for her many years as presenter of live chamber music concerts, broadcast around Europe, from London’s Wigmore Hall.

She has also presented for BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and for BBC Radio 6 Music, and has produced documentaries and features ranging from Ragtime Music in Hungary, the repatriation of Bartók’s remains to his homeland, Icelandic contemporary music, the work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Prokofiev, the statues of Hyde Park. Her interviewees range from David Sylvian, Jon Anderson, Greg Lake to Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, Jan Garbarek.

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