BBC Music Magazine

Georgia Mann

Starting her career as a producer on BBC Three Counties Radio and later Radio 4’s Front Row, Georgia Mann now presents and produces some of the BBC’s flagship music programmes, including Essential Classics, Words and Music and In Tune on Radio 3. She been a regular presenter of the 2023 Proms, including the Last Night in September. She also blogs about parenting for HuffPost.

One of my best and earliest musical memories was being driven through France on the car stereo all the way. I was about six and it was the first time my dad and I had spent much time alone – my mum flew separately with my baby brother. I associate it with fields full of sunflowers and France whizzing past the car window. But also as the first piece of music which really had my pulse racing.

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