Xavier Bray's guest appearances

Xavier Bray

Private Passions

Cast Iron Productions

Carol Ann Duffy

Al Kennedy

Isaiah Berlin

Jancis Robinson

Laurie Anderson

Michael Craig-Martin

Helen Cammock

Thomas Moore

Tim Harford

Sugata Mitra

Andy McNab

Philippa Perry

Katy Brand

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Carlo Rovelli

OwlTail

Xavier Bray is a renowned specialist in 17th- and 18th-century art, and he's been director for a year now of the Wallace Collection, that rich collection of rococo painting, china, and armour, housed in a grand mansion in Marylebone that remains something of a well-kept secret. Bray would like to change that, opening up the gallery to a wider public and to music of all kinds. He himself would have loved to be an opera singer, and he has sung in choirs all his life. His party piece is a demonstration of Mongolian throat singing, which he taught himself after going to a concert as a student. He gives Michael Berkeley a demonstration, and discusses, more seriously, the connection between the visual arts and music. He reveals his other musical passions: for Marin Marais, flamenco, Bizet, Messiaen, and for the Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli. Produced by Elizabeth BurkeA Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

Xavier Bray is a renowned specialist in 17th- and 18th-century art, and he's been director for a year now of the Wallace Collection, that rich collection of rococo painting, china, and armour, housed in a grand mansion in Marylebone that remains something of a well-kept secret. Bray would like to change that, opening up the gallery to a wider public and to music of all kinds. He himself would have loved to be an opera singer, and he has sung in choirs all his life. His party piece is a demonstration of Mongolian throat singing, which he taught himself after going to a concert as a student. He gives Michael Berkeley a demonstration, and discusses, more seriously, the connection between the visual arts and music. He reveals his other musical passions: for Marin Marais, flamenco, Bizet, Messiaen, and for the Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3.

Dorothy Cross

Dorothy Cross is an artist from Cork, Ireland. Her work incorporates sculpture, film and photography and examines the relationship between living beings and the natural world. In recent years, her practice has focused on nature and the ocean, working with maligned animals such as jellyfish and shark, and exploring rarely accessible areas like sea caves or shell grottos. She lives in Connemara, a rural area on Ireland’s wild west coast.Xavier Bray is a curator and director of the Wallace Collection in London. He was the curator of paintings at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in 2000, he then became the assistant curator of 17th- and 18th-century European paintings at London’s National Gallery, before joining Dulwich Picture Gallery as Chief Curator in 2011. He has organised a number of exhibitions including including The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700 (2009) and Goya: The Portraits (2015).Inspired by Conversations Before The End Of Time by Suzi Gablik.Conversations In Time is recorded and distributed as part of European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017.

Dorothy Cross is an artist from Cork, Ireland. Her work incorporates sculpture, film and photography and examines the relationship between living beings and the natural world. In recent years, her practice has focused on nature and the ocean, working with maligned animals such as jellyfish and shark, and exploring rarely accessible areas like sea caves or shell grottos. She lives in Connemara, a rural area on Ireland’s wild west coast. Xavier Bray is a curator and director of the Wallace Collection in London. He was the curator of paintings at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in 2000, he then became the assistant curator of 17th- and 18th-century European paintings at London’s National Gallery, before joining Dulwich Picture Gallery as Chief Curator in 2011. He has organised a number of exhibitions including including The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture, 1600–1700 (2009) and Goya: The Portraits (2015). Inspired by Conversations Before The End Of Time by Suzi Gablik. Conversations In Time is recorded and distributed as part of European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017.

Dorothy Cross and Xavier Bray - Conversations In Time