Janet Street-Porter Recorder First Love
25 Aug 2010
Janet Street-Porter goes in search of her First Love on Sky Arts
Sky Arts 1 HD and Sky Arts 1
From Wednesday 11th August
8pm
Five famous faces from comedy, radio, television and journalism rekindle their relationship with their first
love this August on Sky Arts 1 HD. First
Love will see Katie Derham, Lenny
Henry, Janet Street-Porter, Mark
Radcliffe and Meera Syal
rediscover the passion
they once had for music before forging their now
successful careers.
Each week, a different celebrity will retrain in the field of their
‘first love’, learning and relearning long forgotten skills from childhood.
Janet Street-Porter will train on baroque recorder, and broadcaster Katie
Derham retrains in classical violin.
Mark Radcliffe takes on the drums, whilst Lenny Henry and Meera Syal
exercise their vocal chords, in soul and jazz singing respectively. Each star
will work with a professional mentor to rediscover their dormant talent, before
finally showcasing their newly reignited passion in a live performance at a
prestigious venue in front of a paying audience.
Janet Street-Porter - Recorder: The Wigmore Hall (8th
September)
Journalist and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter's lifelong love of
music and culture started when she picked up the recorder at primary
school. Reliving the torment of
music lessons and scales practice she trains for a performance at The Wigmore Hall under her mentor, world renowned recorder virtuoso Pamela Thorby.
See Janet with Pamela Thorby choosing a recorder at
The Early Music Shop London on this video trailer:
The series reveals the forgotten dreams of the stars
in their younger years, as they revisit their past and talk to their parents, old
friends and school teachers. Discover what motivated their ‘first love’ and how
their lives and careers ended up taking a different path from their musical
dreams. Meeting musicians and experts, they will get the chance to immerse
themselves in different artistic worlds and discover the professional nature of
their chosen sound and instrument before their big live performance.
“Everyone wonders about the path their lives would
have taken were it for a different decision – First Love gives these celebrities the opportunity to revisit that,” comments John Cassy, channel director
of Sky Arts. “It’s absolutely fascinating to watch some very talented people in
their own field turn their hand to something completely different. Not only
does it take them out of their comfort zones, but it offers us compelling
insight into their own childhood and personalities. It’s
riveting watching.”