4: Hannah Peel

Hannah Peel is a musician, producer, composer and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster based in Yorkshire, England, who blends electronic and classical music across her many film and TV soundtracks and artist albums, including 2021’s Fir Wave, which made the Mercury Music Prize shortlist. Hannah’s soundtracks are Emmy-nominated and Ivor Novello-winning: in 2023, she became the first woman to win Best Television Score for British sci-fi series The Midwich Cuckoos. She’s released several solo albums with ambitious concepts, including a meditation on neuroscience inspired by her grandmother’s dementia and a seven-movement space odyssey written for synthesisers and a 29-piece brass band. In this episode, Hannah talks about her search for connection, experimenting with creating new instruments and sounds, how growing up in Northern Ireland and Yorkshire influenced her experience of sound, composing music for Game of Thrones and her affinity with Delia Derbyshire.