Can We See Music?
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Greg James and Bella Mackie head back to the art room for a lesson from Miss Green about how art and music collide.
They'll hear about how the great painters like Picasso and Van Gogh were inspired by music, share their own memories of how music has shaped their lives, find out about synaesthesia and how it shapes the work of artists like Kandinsky and musicians like Billie Eilish.
They'll discover the ways in which art and music have intertwined over the past 100 years, resulting in movements like Psychedelia, Pop Art and Punk.
Plus, hear about how the K-Pop group BTS are supporting contemporary art and find out which musicians have the most impressive art collections in the world.
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your funny school stories - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, can we see music? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Bella Mackie, and I'm Greg Greg James and there's something different about me. |
| 0:14.6 | D can you tell? I wonder if the listeners can tell. |
| 0:17.4 | Greg's wearing glasses. I'm wearing my glasses. |
| 0:19.8 | Yeah, I mean you're not wearing a superhero outfit, you just want your glasses. |
| 0:23.4 | I don't know if you get points for it, but you look very nice. |
| 0:26.1 | At least I can see the script. Welcome to Teach Me A Lesson, The Podcast that Seeks out the finest teaching talent in the UK and asks them to teach us their favorite lesson. |
| 0:42.0 | We are strong believers that you can keep learning |
| 0:45.6 | until you die. And particularly you're better at learning when you're older, that's right, |
| 0:51.9 | isn't it? That's where this podcast came from yeah no yeah we're definitely better learners now that we're older |
| 0:56.8 | and we don't find it at all but this is never a chore this is a dream and today |
| 1:01.8 | this is date night in fact for us it is it is date night is a day |
| 1:05.0 | date night in fact for us it is date actually and we are we are this is like this is like |
| 1:07.5 | pre drinks because we're gonna go out for dinner after this yeah this is quality time |
| 1:11.0 | for us spent Spent Together, learning together. |
| 1:13.6 | Today is another art lesson for you. This is the one, right? |
| 1:22.4 | This is the meat, yeah. Even though I'm a vegetarian, this is the one right this is the me yeah even though I'm a vegetarian this is the me yeah and yeah it'll be one of my favorite lessons |
| 1:28.0 | meaning that each week one of us has said that it's our favorite |
| 1:33.7 | thereby devaluing the whole series or just being positive about all of it everything's |
| 1:36.3 | amazing I can't pick a favorite just pick a favorite |
| 1:38.5 | our teacher today is miss green she teaches art and graphic design at Mount Bay Academy in Penzance, where |
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