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Emma Clarke is the presenter of BBC Radio 3's Saturday Breakfast show, a composer, artist, voice actor, writer and creative mentor.

This page is about the work she makes in her studio.

06/07/2025

Didn’t quite make the early start yesterday? Listen on BBC Sounds

Here’s what you missed on Saturday Breakfast:
🔥 A piano sonata full of fire by Montgeroult
🌿 A folk-flavoured breeze from Coleridge-Taylor
🌩 Rachmaninov drama, young Chopin, soulful Vaughan Williams
🎻 And Brahms, Purcell, Saint-Saëns…

The perfect playlist to start your Sunday slow. ☕️

📸 My loyalest fan! Just look at her face. 💕

05/07/2025

🎧 Good morning! ☀️

From stormy Rachmaninov to lyrical Coleridge-Taylor, we’re setting the tone for your Saturday on .

✨ Saturday Breakfast is live now, 06:30–09:00.
Join me for music full of colour, fire, and feeling – including Montgeroult, Vaughan Williams, Purcell, Brahms, and more.

Kettle on. Radio up. ☕️ 📻 🔥

04/07/2025

I’m off to bed early tonight –
I’ve got a breakfast date with you. ☕🎶

Tomorrow’s Breakfast show is full of vivid sound worlds:
🔥 Montgeroult’s Agitato con fuoco
🌿 Coleridge-Taylor’s summery quintet
🌩 A stormy Rachmaninov Prelude
✨ Plus Purcell, Brahms, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saëns, young Chopin...and more!

See you from 06:30-09:00 tomorrow!

03/07/2025

Starting the day with voiceover recordings, then I'm off to RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music for academic supervision. Today I'm presenting a choral piece, and its sister piece for string orchestra. Yikes!

After that, it's party time! A dear colleague is retiring so we're having a gathering in her honour. Don't wait up!

02/07/2025

🎶 Curious what's in store for Saturday’s Breakfast on ?

We’ve got:
✨ Agitato con fuoco from Hélène de Montgeroult – fiery stuff for early risers
✨ Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet – like a gentle summer stroll
✨ Vaughan Williams’ Dives and Lazarus – a musical parable
✨ Rachmaninov, Purcell, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Brahms...and much more!

The playlist is almost done!
See you Saturday, 06:30–09:00.

01/07/2025

Another name from the pages of my 1917 autograph book:

Madam Zomah – The Woman Who Can Tell You Anything.

She performed at The Chatham Empire during WWI, dressed in an extraordinary costume and displayed amazing powers of telepathy. But who was she?

The autograph book is a portal to the past. Each signature is a thread connecting us to a vanished world of velvet curtains, gaslight, and mystery.

New Substack post on the extraordinary Zomah and the secrets she took to her grave:

👉 https://ebclarke.substack.com/p/echoes-from-1917-the-unsolved-mystery-madam-zomah-music-hall-telepathy

30/06/2025

I'm taking it a bit easier today. Last week I completed two big projects (my PhD annual review report and portfolio submission) and a 10 minute piece for string orchestra. So while I can't take a proper holiday right now, I'll be taking more coffee breaks, longer pauses between tasks and I plan to spend a good chunk of today sitting in the sun listening to glorious music!

29/06/2025

☕ Missed yesterday’s Saturday Breakfast?
You can still hear:
🇫🇷 Erik Satie in wistful form
🎼 Clara Schumann’s elegant chamber music
🔥 Saint-Saëns’ Presto
🌿 Roussel’s lush forest symphony
🎭 And Malcolm Arnold dancing across the UK in orchestral technicolour
💬 Plus the tale of the composer who was also a glassblower
📲 Listen back now on
🎧 Search Radio 3 Saturday Breakfast with Emma Clarke

📸 A sleepy listener!

28/06/2025

🎶 This morning on Saturday Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 ...
☀️ Satie wakes us gently
🌲 Roussel conjures a forest in full colour
🎹 Yuja Wang brings drama and depth via Rachmaninov
🔥 Saint-Saëns takes us on a fiery, fast ride!
🎻 Clara Schumann, Vivaldi’s bassoons, and four dances by Malcolm Arnold all join the party.
💬 There's a story about a 19th-century glassblower. (He was also a composer. No, really.)
🕡 Pour your coffee. I’ve got the music.
📻 BBC Radio 3 · 6.30–9am

27/06/2025

Well, I’m turning in ready to be up bright and early at 3.30am tomorrow for a French themed Saturday Breakfast on BBC Radio 3 where we’ll be under the spell of Erik Satie. It’s 100 years since his birth, and his music weaves through the morning like a dream: lightly surreal, gently melancholic, always captivating.

There’ll also be sweeping Rachmaninov, fluttering Poulenc, a forest brought to life by Roussel, and a composer who (briefly) became a glassblower.

Join me tomorow, 0630-0900 on BBC Radio 3. Bring croissants! 🇫🇷

25/06/2025

✨ We’re celebrating Erik Satie on BBC Radio 3 this Sat! There's music with a 🇫🇷 flavour + elegant chamber music, moody Rachmaninov, fiery Saint-Saëns…and a composer who was also a glass blower.

Expect sweeping drama, featherlight flute sonatas, bassoon brilliance + more!

📻 0630-0900 this Saturday

22/06/2025

Missed Saturday Breakfast on Radio 3? You can still catch the sunrise... 🌅

Yesterday’s programme was a musical journey through light and shadow: Chopin in poetic flow, an Australian gem full of unsaid words, and MacMillan’s radiant dawn...and we danced a conga!

🎧 Listen back on BBC Sounds.
📸 Yum!

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https://emmaclarke.com/

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