Over the next few weeks we are counting down to the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival with the help of some of its star performers, artists, composers and conductors. In this episode we ask our guests about the importance of their surroundings – the sights and sounds of their creative spaces, the bleak beauty of Aldeburgh, and a thread through this year’s Festival: the enormity of the cosmos.

Presented by BBC Radio 3’s Tom McKinney
Edited by Matt Jolly
Original theme music by Aldeburgh Young Musician, Laila Arafah