Podcasts Culture Front Row Nile Rodgers on his digital portrait, composer Hannah Peel

Nile Rodgers on his digital portrait, composer Hannah Peel

Published: March 22, 2021, 8 p.m.

Nile Rodgers \u2013 guitarist, producer, songwriter, arranger, and co-founder of Chic in the 1970s \u2013 is the subject of what claims to be the world\u2019s first voice-interactive digital portrait, In the Room with Nile Rodgers, in association with the National Portrait Gallery. Nile Rodgers and the project's director, Sarah Coward, discuss and explain the ambitious artwork.

Hannah Peel\u2019s latest album Fir Wave is inspired by nature, and finds links between patterns in nature and in early electronic music. She explains the inspiration behind her new album, how she\u2019s reinterpreted iconic music by the Radiophonic Workshop, and why Delia Derbyshire is such an important figure for her.

Presenter: John Wilson\nProducer: Jerome Weatherald

Main image: Nile Rodgers\nImage credit: Dimitri Hakke/Getty Images