In this podcast of the programme first broadcast on Friday 2nd May you can hear :

Announcement of RUTH TICKLE as winner of the Cleveland Medal 2025 - singing one of her two test pieces - "Will there really be a morning" a poem by Emily Dickinson set to music by Ricky Ian Gordon. Ruth's accompanist is Graham Kirkland

Peel Clothworkers School - winners of the Open Choirs Class years 3 - 6 singing "Enjoy The Storm" and "Count On Me"

Deborah Taubman recites from the poems of T.E. Brown - taking first place in the class, with an extract from Betsy Lee

Skeealyn Vannin - conducted by Kristene Mary Wilson - winners of the Gaelic Choir class (up to year 13) singing two pieces - Ushag Veg Ruy - traditional, arranged by Frank Woolley and Ta'n Grine Veg Oarn composed by Katie Lawrence

"Losing my mind" - from Follies - sung by Maia Haddock - winner of Songs from the Musicals & Light Opera

Richard Corlett singing 'A Friend Like Me' from Disney's Aladdin - winner of the Most Entertaining Performance in Songs from the Musicals class

Rhiannon Mellor sings "Still Hurting" from the film The Last Five Years - second place in the Songs from the Musicals & Light Opera

Neil Taverner - winner of the Operatic Solo Class sings "Starbuck's Soliloquy" from Moby Dick by Jake Heggie - accompanied by Madeline Kelly. Neil also won the William Curphey Memorial Challenge Cup for the best baritone in this class.