Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 12 January 2026
Anton Chekhov, Earliest Stories: How a Great Writer Started Out, with co-editor Elena Michajlowska, Pushkin House, London, 29 January 2026
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"Oscar Wilde and Anton Chekhov: Two Literary Rebels", with Prof. Sos Eltis, 5.30pm, Friday 24 October 2025, Brasenose College
"Young Chekhov: How a Great Writer Started Out", illustrated talk, 7pm, Thursday 24 April 2025, Books on the Rise, Hill Rise, Richmond
BBC Radio 3, interval guest, Opera on 3: Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades from Garsington Opera, 11 October 2025
BBC Radio 4, contributor,"Opening Lines": Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, 14 and 21 September 2025
BBC Radio 4, contributor,"Opening Lines": Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, 14 and 21 September 2025
BBC Radio 3, interval guest, 9 September 2025, Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, Vienna Philharmonic
BBC Radio 3, interval guest, Opera on 3: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin from the Royal Opera House, 26 October 2024
BBC Radio 3, interval guest. 1 September 2025, Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, English National Opera
“Naples and the Russian Literary Imagination”, part of “Conversations around Naples” public talks series, 6pm, Thursday 16 May, Il Corno cafe, Covered Market, Oxford
pre-concert talk, Brodsky String Quartet, Friday 9 May 2025, St. Just in Roseland Church, Cornwall: Haydn String Quartet Op 50 no 1 in B flat major, Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Shostakovich String Quartet no 9 in E flat major
"Who Was Tolstoy" The Life of a Russian Rebel”, illustrated talk, 7pm, Thursday 24 April 2025, Books on the Rise, Hill Rise, Richmond
BBC Radio 3, interval guest, Opera on 3: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin from the Royal Opera House, 26 October 2024
Proms interval guest, Stravinsky, The Firebird, 18 August 2024, BBC Radio 3
Proms interval guest, Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony, 31 July 2024, BBC Radio 3,
Rachmaninov’s Aleko and Francesca da Rimini, Opera on 3, BBC Radio 3, April 2024, in discussion with Andrew McGregor
“Rodchenko’s Farewell to Painting”, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Art Appreciation lecture, March, 2024
“Colour and Form: Kandinsky and Modern Art”, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, lecture series, February 2024
Proms interval guest, Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony, 31 July 2024, BBC Radio 3,
Rachmaninov’s Aleko and Francesca da Rimini, Opera on 3, BBC Radio 3, April 2024, in discussion with Andrew McGregor
“Rodchenko’s Farewell to Painting”, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Art Appreciation lecture, March, 2024
“Colour and Form: Kandinsky and Modern Art”, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, lecture series, February 2024
Rimsky-Korsakov, Christmas Eve, Opera on 3, BBC Radio 3, December 2023, in discussion with Tom Service
BBC Proms interval discussion about Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony, 15 August, 2023
"Reading Russian Literature in a Time of War: Chekhov & Tolstoy’, Western Sydney University Writing and Research Centre seminar, 24 March 2023
“Eugene Onegin: The Letter and the Gun", Opera Holland Park event with Lada Valešová, Anna Picard and Julia Burbach, Marylebone, London, March 2022
"From Balcone to Biglietto: The Story of Italian Art, Architecture and Music in St. Petersburg", Aberdeen Italian Circle, January 2022
"A Wndow into Russia: Paris, Moscow and St. Petersburg During the Belle Époque”, three lectures for the Friends of the Ashmolean, June 2021; The Two Faces of Russia: Moscow and St Petersburg; Russian Artists in Paris in the Belle Époque; Matisse in Moscow: Icons and the Avant-Garde
“Russia’s Artistic Journey”, three virtual lectures, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, April 2021: From Paris to St Petersburg: How the fine arts travelled to Russia in the 18th century, Wanderers: How Russian artists discovered their own country in the 19th century, Faberge and the Firebird: Cultural Exchange and the European Avant-Garde in the 20th Century
“The Superfluous Man and the Bookish Girl: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin” - discussion with Lada Valešová and Anna Picard, Holland Park Opera, Marylebone, London, March 2020
‘Wagner - passing the baton’: panel discussion evening - Wagner Circle Event, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, November 2019
Sofia Tolstoy - A Centenary: Sophie Ratcliffe and Rosamund Bartlett in Conversation - John Sandoe Books, Chelsea, November 2019
An exploration of the Russian symphonic tradition, BBC Proms Plus Talk, Imperial College Union, 24 August 2019
Tchaikovsky and the Folk Tradition, BBC Proms Plus Talk, Imperial College Union, 1 September 2019
Russian Classics, Better Read Bookstore literary tour to Moscow and St Petersburg, September 2019
Natalia Goncharova - A Russian Trailblazer, ‘London Art and More’ lecture series, June 2019, Richmond
Chekhov and the Meaning of Life, Better Read Than Dead Bookstore event, Newtown, Sydney,
March 2019
"Anna Karenina, Tolstoy and Russia", lecture, State Library of NSW, Sydney, March 2019"From Chopin to Sibelius: Art and the National Soul in Poland and the Baltics", Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 10.30am, Saturday 2 March 2019
"Matisse in Moscow: Icons and the Avant-Garde", lecture to accompany the Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10.30am, Thursday 7 February 2019
"Matisse in Leningrad: The Hermitage and its Masters of Modern Art", lecture to accompany the Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10.30am, Thursday 14 February 2019
"A Common Culture?", panel discussion on Anglo-Russian relations with Anthony Cross and Boris Akunin, Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs exhibition, Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 6.30pm, 24 January 2019
"Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk", guest lecture, V&A History of Performance, Dance and Theatre Year Course, Term 1, The History of Opera, V&A Museum, 7 December 2018
"Musorgsky, Ravel and the International Mission of Moscow’s House of Song, 1908-1918", Oxford Lieder Festival symposium:“Reaching Out: European Song Across Borders” , Lincoln College, Oxford, 14 October 2018
"Chekhov’s Gardens", talk for the Oxford Perm Association, Rewley House, Oxford, 9 July, 6pm - about Anton Chekhov’s Garden, designed by Anna Benn and Hannah Gardner for the Anton Chekhov Foundation, RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, 3-8 July 2018
"The Doctor’s Garden: on the Anton Chekhov Garden" at the RHS Hampton Court Garden Show, July 2018, joint talk with Dr. Michael Dixon, Chairman, College of Medicine and Integrated Health, Second Plant Medicine Conference: “The Next Steps: Putting Nature to Work”, Barber Surgeons’ Hall, London EC2, 21st June 2018
"Constructivism, Jazz and Montage: The Arts in Soviet Russia 1921-1928,, Part 1: 1921-1924", Stonehill House, Abingdon, 14 April 2018
"Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of the Russian Avant-Garde", lecture for The Friends of Kenwood, Kenwood House, Hampstead, 15 April 2018
"Constructivism, Jazz and Montage: The Arts in Soviet Russia 1921-1928, Part 2: 1925-1928", Stonehill House, Abingdon, 29 April 2018
"The Golden Age of the Imperial Theatres: Opera at the Mariinsky, 1890-1917", event for Opera Prelude , Cadogan Hall, London, 1 May 2018
"The Music of Dmitry Shostakovich: Of Its Time And For All Time", with Daniel Driscoll, Stonehill House, Abingdon, 24 February 2018
"How Chekhov Took on Tolstoy", St. Margaret’s Institute, Tea and Talks, Polstead Road, Oxford, 7 March, 1.30-3.30pm
“Russia’s Artistic Journey”, three virtual lectures, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, April 2021: From Paris to St Petersburg: How the fine arts travelled to Russia in the 18th century, Wanderers: How Russian artists discovered their own country in the 19th century, Faberge and the Firebird: Cultural Exchange and the European Avant-Garde in the 20th Century
“The Superfluous Man and the Bookish Girl: Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin” - discussion with Lada Valešová and Anna Picard, Holland Park Opera, Marylebone, London, March 2020
‘Wagner - passing the baton’: panel discussion evening - Wagner Circle Event, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, November 2019
Sofia Tolstoy - A Centenary: Sophie Ratcliffe and Rosamund Bartlett in Conversation - John Sandoe Books, Chelsea, November 2019
An exploration of the Russian symphonic tradition, BBC Proms Plus Talk, Imperial College Union, 24 August 2019
Tchaikovsky and the Folk Tradition, BBC Proms Plus Talk, Imperial College Union, 1 September 2019
Russian Classics, Better Read Bookstore literary tour to Moscow and St Petersburg, September 2019
Natalia Goncharova - A Russian Trailblazer, ‘London Art and More’ lecture series, June 2019, Richmond
Chekhov and the Meaning of Life, Better Read Than Dead Bookstore event, Newtown, Sydney,
March 2019
"Anna Karenina, Tolstoy and Russia", lecture, State Library of NSW, Sydney, March 2019"From Chopin to Sibelius: Art and the National Soul in Poland and the Baltics", Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, 10.30am, Saturday 2 March 2019
"Matisse in Moscow: Icons and the Avant-Garde", lecture to accompany the Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10.30am, Thursday 7 February 2019
"Matisse in Leningrad: The Hermitage and its Masters of Modern Art", lecture to accompany the Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 10.30am, Thursday 14 February 2019
"A Common Culture?", panel discussion on Anglo-Russian relations with Anthony Cross and Boris Akunin, Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs exhibition, Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 6.30pm, 24 January 2019
"Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk", guest lecture, V&A History of Performance, Dance and Theatre Year Course, Term 1, The History of Opera, V&A Museum, 7 December 2018
"Musorgsky, Ravel and the International Mission of Moscow’s House of Song, 1908-1918", Oxford Lieder Festival symposium:“Reaching Out: European Song Across Borders” , Lincoln College, Oxford, 14 October 2018
"Chekhov’s Gardens", talk for the Oxford Perm Association, Rewley House, Oxford, 9 July, 6pm - about Anton Chekhov’s Garden, designed by Anna Benn and Hannah Gardner for the Anton Chekhov Foundation, RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, 3-8 July 2018
"The Doctor’s Garden: on the Anton Chekhov Garden" at the RHS Hampton Court Garden Show, July 2018, joint talk with Dr. Michael Dixon, Chairman, College of Medicine and Integrated Health, Second Plant Medicine Conference: “The Next Steps: Putting Nature to Work”, Barber Surgeons’ Hall, London EC2, 21st June 2018
"Constructivism, Jazz and Montage: The Arts in Soviet Russia 1921-1928,, Part 1: 1921-1924", Stonehill House, Abingdon, 14 April 2018
"Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of the Russian Avant-Garde", lecture for The Friends of Kenwood, Kenwood House, Hampstead, 15 April 2018
"Constructivism, Jazz and Montage: The Arts in Soviet Russia 1921-1928, Part 2: 1925-1928", Stonehill House, Abingdon, 29 April 2018
"The Golden Age of the Imperial Theatres: Opera at the Mariinsky, 1890-1917", event for Opera Prelude , Cadogan Hall, London, 1 May 2018
"The Music of Dmitry Shostakovich: Of Its Time And For All Time", with Daniel Driscoll, Stonehill House, Abingdon, 24 February 2018
"How Chekhov Took on Tolstoy", St. Margaret’s Institute, Tea and Talks, Polstead Road, Oxford, 7 March, 1.30-3.30pm
