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Nation's Favourites: Matthew Bourne

Jo meets with choreographer Matthew Bourne to talk through his career in dance. Jo explores Matthew's world from waiting by stage doors to meet his idols to reworking Swan Lake.

In this series of interviews Jo talks to some of the nation's biggest talents across British culture, including film and television; Joanna Lumley and literature with Dame Jacqueline Wilson.

Tonight she is joined by choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne. Matthew was born and raised in London where when he was a teenager he would hang around the West End's Stage Doors hoping to meet his idols such as Charlie Chaplin. In his teens he would direct and lead his own amateur dance companies despite never taking lessons himself until his early twenties.

Having graduated from Laban in 1985 he would continue his career as a professional dancer until 1999.

Since 1987 he's been working as a professional choreographer and director and is the only British director to have won Tony Awards for 'Best Direction of a Musical' and 'Best Choreography'.

He is most famous for his production of Swan Lake which first opened in 1995 and is the longest running ballet on Broadway and the West End.

1 hour, 57 minutes

Last on

Wed 24 Jan 2018 20:00
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Stone Roses

    Fools Gold

    • Precious - Various Artists.
    • Dino.

  • George Ezra

    Paradise

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Ship To Wreck

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • Imelda May & Jack Savoretti

    Call Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Decca.
    • 001.

  • John Grant

    GMF (feat. Sin茅ad O鈥機onnor)

    • Bella Union.

  • Dua Lipa

    IDGAF

    • Dua Lipa.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Jamie T

    If You Got The Money

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Virgin.

  • The Fall

    Hit The North

    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Editors

    Magazine

    • PIAS.

  • Kate Bush

    Babooshka

  • shame

    One Rizla

  • Manic Street Preachers

    International Blue

  • Toots & The Maytals

    Pressure Drop

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Island.
    • 12.

  • Priscilla Lopez & A Chorus Line Ensemble

    What I Did For Love

  • The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    Main Title From 'Edward Scissorhands'

    • 100 Greatest Film Themes CD4.
    • 16.

  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake: I Scene (Act II - No 10)

    • Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - Act II Complete / Swan Lake Selection From The Complet.
    • 15.

  • Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

    This Is Me

    • The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Atlantic.
    • 7.

  • Fred Astaire

    Let's Face The Music And Dance

    • Musical Wonderland (Various Artists).
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Donna Summer

    Last Dance

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Mercury.
    • 16.

  • Peggy Wood (Mother Abbess)

    Climb Ev'ry Mountain

    • The Sound Of Music.
    • 8.

Broadcast

  • Wed 24 Jan 2018 20:00
    成人快手 Radio 2