In association with Durham BRASS, we bring you two hours of brass-inspired radio.

This second specially commissioned BRASS Unbound show, hosted by Ken Patterson, will focus on the diversity and excitement of the BRASS festival and will feature interviews and music from many of the bands who have taken part over the years, including the Mute Antz, the fabulous Artitas del Gremio form Zaragoza, Mr Wilson's Second Line, Jazz in my Pants, Backchat Brass, and the Baghdaddies.

The festival always includes a huge schools outreach programme, so there will also be a look at what this means to the region’s young people, and some who have benefited form this work in past years. Lewis Wilkinson remembers being inspired by the Durham BRASS's outreach programme to create his own streetband Jazz in My Pants, and is now training to be an orchestral conductor. 

The Cobweb Orchestra's Andy Jackson remembers the early days of street music in the region and the Durham Streetband. Paul Miskin of the Mute Antz remembers the initial years on the Streets of durham.

Rachel Unthank talks of the special staging of an Unthanks concert in Durham Cathedral with the Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band.

John Kerala Kerr, composer, and  Zoe Lambert, actress, talk about the Gala Theatre staging of 'Steam Song' in 2014 specially commissioned by the National Railway Museum.