The discordant tale of Thomas Weelkes
'Noted and famed for a comon drunckard and notorious swearer & blasphemer.' Thomas Weelkes wrote more Anglican service music for evensong than many of his fellow Tudor composers.
Known for madrigals, organ playing and disorderly conduct - Thomas Weelkes wrote his first published pieces when young and went on to work in Winchester college and Chichester cathedral. 400 years after his death, New Generation Thinker Ellie Chan, from the University of Manchester, digs beneath the mythology surrounding his life and music.
Producer: Luke Mulhall
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by 麻豆社 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year who turn their research into radio. You can find a collection of discussions, essays and features focusing on their new research on the Free Thinking programme website and you can hear more from Ellie Chan in an episode called The Tudor Mind.
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