This is a very good idea. Much more informative and engaging than programme notes. The digital element also makes it more democratic. Lots of people (like me) don't run to programmes anyway. good to have some samples as well as the chat, but the chat is the really engaging idea. I went to Oedipus at 16, and have never listened to it since (40 years), but even I felt quite warm towards it by the end of the chat.
The audience seldom gets the human contact of hearing the players speak.

The June podcast was good. My son got a first at university for his dissertation on Fraud, so the final part was quite interesting.
G.Taylor

Absolutely brilliant playing and interesting to hear Nikolai Lugansky's comments on what is, to my mind, Rachmaninoff's greatest piano work, the one that he himself loved best. However many times the beautiful second may be played, the third outshines it every time. It deserves to be heard much more - difficult as it certainly is to play.