Journeys of Discovery:
About This Episode
In this episode of Journeys of Discovery, Michael Hayman sits down with Petroc Trelawny, classical music broadcaster, and the voice behind BBC Radio 3’s Breakfast programme.
Petroc reflects on the influence of music and music performance, classical and otherwise, on identity and emotions, and discusses his new book, Trelawny’s Cornwall, a part history, part memoir, which explores the past, present and future of the region.
Petroc Trelawny, Radio and TV Broadcaster
Petroc Trelawny is a classical music broadcaster and presenter of the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast programme.
Raised and educated in Cornwall, he started his career at BBC Radio Devon, as a reporter and presenter, at the age of nineteen hosting the station’s major news programming, and soon after becoming one of the nation’s youngest newsreaders, presenting bulletins for BBC Plymouth’s ‘Spotlight’.
Having read the news for British Forces Radio during the first Gulf War, he then joined the network as a presenter in Hong Kong, spending a year broadcasting to the military in what was then still a British colony.
As well as music, his passions include Cornwall, travel, food and literature. His musical tastes are wide, from early choral music to Sondheim musicals. He is chairman of the Lennox Berkeley Society and is particularly fond of the operas of Britten and Mozart, the symphonies of Shostakovich, and the piano sonatas of Beethoven.