Fiona Talkington

For BBC Radio 3, Talkington has presented and produced a wide variety of programmes such as Late Junction,[1] Composer of the Week (working with trumpeter John Wallace on a series on John Philip Sousa and Scott Joplin), Radio 3 Requests, the BBC Proms, Breakfast, Sacred and Profane, Afternoon on 3 and Womad.

She also presents live chamber music concerts, broadcast around Europe, from London’s Wigmore Hall.

Talkington has been involved in the Norwegian arts world, and has become closely associated with the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand.

[citation needed] As a writer she is a regular contributor to Songlines magazine, has written for The Guardian and The Independent newspapers, and has contributed to books in Germany on the ECM record label, and in Norway for a celebration of the 75th anniversary of NOPA.

She obtained a masters degree in literature and visual arts; in her studies she specialised in the Omega Workshops and the writings of Sir Kenneth Clark.