Broadcasts
For many years Daniel Snowman worked at the BBC where, as Chief Producer (Features), he was responsible for a wide variety of radio series on cultural and historical subjects, specialising in ambitious, multi-programme projects.
Broadcasting highlights have included:
- Northern Lights – a Radio 4 Festival about the people, economics, science and politics of the Arctic
- Fin de Siècle, which attempted to enter and recreate the sound world of the final years of each of the past six centuries, and which later appeared as a book edited by Daniel Snowman and Asa Briggs
- The Culture Carriers – an evening on BBC Radio 3, which he presented, to mark the launch of his book The Hitler Emigrés
- In 2007 he presented a 6-part feature series on Radio 3 about the social history of opera
Principal BBC Radio productions (presenter &/or producer) have included
- The Gilded Stage: series about the social and cultural history of opera: 2007
- Spitalfields: 2002; Vaughan Williams’ London: 2003 (both with Dan Cruickshank)
- Culture Carriers: An evening on Radio 3 about the work of the Hitler Emigrés: 2002
- Victoria’s Children: 2001; Living with Glorious John (Barbirolli centenary): 1999
- 5-part series on Puccini; Spirit of the Age series; cultural history of Vienna: 1998
- Rebuilding the (Opera) House: 1997
- Singing Verdi:1995; Conducting Verdi:1996; Directing Verdi: 1997
- History Now and Then (history series with Roy Porter and others): 1994-6
- Pretty Witty Nell (Nell Gwyn); The D-Drunken P-Poet (Durfey): 1995
- Donizetti’s Final Mad Scene and Legacy of Liszt: 1994
- Curtain Up (opera introductions, with Aled Jones): 1993-5
- Fin de Siècle (the ends of the past six centuries in British history): 1994
- On the Road for a Song (traditional music of Britain’s regions, with Lucie Skeaping): 1993
- Northern Lights (5-week multi-programme Arctic Festival): 1992
- Maps of the Mind: 1991
- Pastime With Good Company (Portrait of Henry VIII): 1991
- The Making of the “Vixen” (with Simon Rattle): 1990
- Songs My Mother Taught Me (music of Britain’s ethnic groups with Lucie Skeaping): 1990
- Beyond the Tunnel of History (Reith Lectures with Jacques Darras): 1989
- Songs of Sepharad (Music of Medieval Jewish Spain, with Lucie Skeaping): 1989
- Encounters in Australia: 1988
- South of Sixty (Antarctica): 1988
- The Age of Chivalry: 1987
- The Making of Medee (Sydney Opera): 1987
- Paco Pena in Cordoba: 1986
- Inside Castro’s Cuba: 1986
- The Making of a Quartet (William Mathias and the Medici Quartet): 1986
- The Vatican: 1985
- The Making of Chagall 1985
- War and Peace in Our Time: 1984
- Enjoying Opera: 1983
- Conversations with Domingo: 1984
- NY Metropolitan Opera at 100: 1983
- A World In Common (world development issues): 1982
- Morality: 1981
- Folktales: 1980
- The Sexes: 1980
- World Powers in the 20th Century (26-part educational series): 1978
- Malraux: 1976
- New York and Chicago – Two Bicentennial Portraits: 1976
- Whatever Happened to Equality? 1976
- “Words…”: 1974-6
- The Long March of Everyman (26-part history of the British people): 1971
- The Publishing Business: 1971
- Britain in the Sixties: 1970
- What Is News? 1970
- Winifred Wagner: 1969
- Music from the Dead Composers (with Rosemary Brown): 1969
- The Conductor and the Orchestra (with Atherton, Bliss, Barbirolli, Boulez, Boult, Haitink, Menuhin et al): 1969
- The Great Powers and the Middle East: 1969
- Black Power: 1969
- Grave New World’: American Society in Election Year: 1968
- ‘I Have a Dream’: Portrait of Martin Luther King: 1968