Media
June 2022
From Our Own Correspondent: on the ups and downs of opening a Greek bank account
BBC
18 September 2020
Lost and found
TLS
About a lost box, family mementos and Samuel Beckett
17 April 2020
What I know – letter from lockdown
A narrative poem about being on lockdown for Tortoise media
10 March 2019
Jewish Book Week – with Alex Clark
King's Place
Voices on the page
07 August 2018
Blue Electric
Tete-a-Tete festival | RADA studios - 7:00 pm
A teenage girl in 1980’s Paris attempts to lead a normal adolescent existence – falling in love, rebelling, searching for her identity – against the backdrop of her volatile artist father’s secret history of war, holocaust and exile.
Music: Tom Smail
Libretto: Alba Arikha
Director: Hugh Hudson
Designer: Laura Albeck
Associate Designer: Sara Stanton
21 June 2018
Blue Electric: how our opera came to life
Composer and Author/Librettist discuss their new opera
11 March 2018
In conversation with Griselda Pollock and Janet Wolff
Jewish Book Week 2018
28 March 2018
Cross-Channel journal, Radio 4
Thoughts about the English Channel: selected for Pick of the Week
26 June 2017
Front Row
BBC Radio 4
With Kirsty Lang
15 May 2017
BBC London: the Jo Good show
Major/Minor and Paris
19 December 2015
The Cultural Frontline
On Hemingway and the Paris attacks
01 October 2015
Radio 4 Book of the Week
August 1,2 2013
Soon
Performed at the Riverside Studios
Opera by Tom Smail, with words by Alba Arikha.
Mezzo: Kate Symonds-Joy
Soprano: Helen-Jane Howells
Tenor: Matt Long
Baritone: George Humphreys
Conductor: Carlos del Cueto
Directed by Rosalind Parker
Set design: Tarka Kings
Narration: Natascha McElhone
June 2013
La Repubblica
Interview at the Santa Maddalena foundation, Italy
24 September 2011
Dans une impasse
Recorded at a live concert at the Theatre de la Vieille Grille in Paris
The concert featured Sagat Guirey (guitar); Marcus Tilt (accordion); Tom Smail (drums); Loz Garratt (double bass).