Oliver has been a frequent guest for the BBC Proms' live pre-concert talks, which are broadcast during the interval on BBC Radio 3. He discussed and read aloud from Tippett's own writings for the 'Proms Plus Literary' discussions (available here as a free podcast), gave an introduction to Tippett's first opera, The Midsummer Marriage (click here to listen), and to Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time (click here to listen).
He was a talking head for a documentary on A Child of Our Time (dir. Tim Marrinan, 2013 - available to view below).
Oliver has worked with BBC radio producers to develop radio programmes on both Tippett and T. S. Eliot, and has lectured on the same topic at London University, both at University College and Goldsmiths. In November and December 2013 he presented two three-hour sessions for the Wigmore Hall Study Group 'The Songs and Chamber Music of Michael Tippett', lecturing on Tippett's life and work, and providing close analyses of Tippett's second piano sonata, and of the song cycle The Heart's Assurance.
In 2015 he curated a conference linked to Birmingham Opera Company's landmark production of Tippett's fourth opera, The Ice Break. Other engagements include pre-concert talks at the Royal Opera House and Cambridge Arts Theatre.
Oliver has also recorded voice-overs for programmes and documentaries on BBC Radios 3 and 4 (including Amanda Vickery on Men, Voices from the Old Bailey, and Twenty Minutes) and provided readings to accompany numerous talks and lectures, for the London Handel Festival and others.
He was a talking head for a documentary on A Child of Our Time (dir. Tim Marrinan, 2013 - available to view below).
Oliver has worked with BBC radio producers to develop radio programmes on both Tippett and T. S. Eliot, and has lectured on the same topic at London University, both at University College and Goldsmiths. In November and December 2013 he presented two three-hour sessions for the Wigmore Hall Study Group 'The Songs and Chamber Music of Michael Tippett', lecturing on Tippett's life and work, and providing close analyses of Tippett's second piano sonata, and of the song cycle The Heart's Assurance.
In 2015 he curated a conference linked to Birmingham Opera Company's landmark production of Tippett's fourth opera, The Ice Break. Other engagements include pre-concert talks at the Royal Opera House and Cambridge Arts Theatre.
Oliver has also recorded voice-overs for programmes and documentaries on BBC Radios 3 and 4 (including Amanda Vickery on Men, Voices from the Old Bailey, and Twenty Minutes) and provided readings to accompany numerous talks and lectures, for the London Handel Festival and others.
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