Name: Petroc Trelawny on his Career and new book about Cornwall.
Start: 2024-09-26T19:00:00+01:00
Location: London Keats Community Library

LONDON: Keats Community Library

Thursday 26th September, 2024

7:00pm

Event information

Petroc Trelawny is a British classical music radio and television broadcaster. Since 1998 he has been a presenter on BBC Radio 3. and has introduced hundreds of broadcasts for the BBC, many from the BBC Proms, as well as the Cardiff Singer of the World and the Leeds International Piano Competition. He currently presents Breakfast.
He will talk about his new book as well as his career, with Rachel Weston, a singer and presenter on The World Service.
'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES

It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national anthem. But when a stranger challenges the Radio 3 presenter on his ancestry, he is inspired to return to the lands of his boyhood to rediscover the place where he grew up, and attempt to confirm if he still belongs there.

Part history, part memoir, this is a deeply felt exploration of Cornwall - past, present and future. Petroc embarks on a slow journey that sees him visit old mine workings, ancient churches, sites where new technology was forged, and places where poets, musicians, architects and film makers have worked to shape Cornwall's cultural identity. He explores the Tamar, the river that marks out the Cornish frontier, and holds a finger up to winds of change, exploring the collapse of Methodism, the decline of the Cornish language, and the complex , sometimes lucrative, sometimes destructive, relationship with tourism.

As he travels by road, rail and foot, he conjures marvellously vivid figures and scenes from memory, telling the stories of a loving family full of mysteries and a landscape still redolent of 'Cornish otherness'

Rachel Weston
Rachel is a classically-trained singer who freelances as a singer/pianist and conductor. She performs internationally with Synergy Vocals, and spent four years touring with the Swingle Singers and two as their Musical Director. As a soloist, Rachel has appeared with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Halle, the RTE Concert Orchestra and the Lahti Symphony, and with Rambert Ballet in a Cole Porter show. Rachel has sung on the soundtracks of several hundred Hollywood movies, and the albums of dozens of artists.

Rachel’s work in broadcasting has included four years as an announcer and newsreader at BBC World Service, the presenting of Proms concerts for BBC FOUR, and hosting arts and music programmes for Television New Zealand.

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