Episode

Jazz legend Miles Davis at 100

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Front Row
Published
May 26, 2026
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2554
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Summary

Writer and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre, and trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed on 100 years of Miles Davis - the musician regarded as the Picasso of jazz. Artist Keith Tyson has just donated a quarter of a million pounds for an astronomy post at Oxford University. He's joined by Professor Ken Arnold, director of the Medical Museum at the University of Copenhagen, to discuss the relationship between art and science. Playwright Rory Mullarkey on his new play at the Royal Exchange, Even These Things, which marks the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of Manchester by the IRA. Jazz's "Saxophone Colossus", Sonny Rollins, remembered. Presenter: Nick Ahad Producer: Ekene Akalawu