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 Fiona Talkington The books balanced on Fiona's bedside table are a bit of a give-away! A volume of the Finnish epic, the Kalevala, jostles for position with Steven Gerrard's autobiography, a stack of the latest Norwegian paperbacks and a Norwegian dictionary. Haydn Sonatas sit open on her piano only just obscuring a volume of Hungarian ragtime music. Shuffle her i-Pod and you'll find a bizarre mixture of Beethoven, Jan Garbarek, Kimmo Pohjonen, Yes and Handel's Messiah. Try to track her down during the summer and she'll be basking in the midnight sun at festivals in Norway or Finland. She has become closely involved with the Punkt Festival in Kirstiansand and in 2003 she was awarded the presitigious Molde Rose by the Molde International Jazz Festival for her services to Norwegian Music. Radio 3 has managed to pin her down for getting on for two decades where she's presented programmes, live concerts and features during most hours of the day or night. These days Fiona is best known for co-presenting the Sony award-winning show Late Junction and, by day, can also be heard presenting Afternoon on 3."I'm incredibly lucky to have this mixture of programmes" says Fiona. "Late Junction allows me to explore the weird and wonderful and gives a chance for some amazing music to be heard on the radio which wouldn't otherwise get an airing. Radio 3's commitment to live music is important to me too, though, and whether it's a world famous string quartet from abroad or one of the BBC's own performing groups there is something vital and precious to me to be a part of that." Fiona is increasingly in demand as event programmer and artistic consultant. " I very much enjoy working behind the scenes" she says " and bringing musicians together." Fiona has an MA degree in Literature and the Visual Arts specialising in the writings of Sir Kenneth Clark. Quite a far cry from that Steven Gerrard volume of hers then? "Situate Anfield in a Norwegian fjord and you'd probably have my dream location" she smiles. |
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