Brian Eno to deliver John Peel Lecture

BBC Radio 6 Music and the Radio Festival 2015 - organised by the Radio Academy - today announce that this year's BBC Music John Peel Lecture will be delivered by legendary musician and producer, Brian Eno.

It will take place at the British Library on Sunday 27 September as part of the Radio Festival. Hosted by 6 Music presenter, Mark Radcliffe, it will be broadcast live from 7pm on 6 Music as part of a special Sunday schedule. And it will be filmed for BBC Four to be broadcast in October.

This year's BBC Music John Peel Lecture will examine the ecology of culture.

Brian Eno will seek to demonstrate how the whole complex of individuals and institutions engaged in culture - artists, broadcasters, gallerists, promoters, DJs, managers, lawyers, fans - are symbiotically connected parts of a single huge organism which we call Culture. He will outline some of his thinking on this very unpredictable ecology and explore the interconnective relationships between the elements and components that combine to create our culture, and show how cultural processes confer essential and important benefits on society.

Brian Eno says: "I'm honoured to be invited to do a talk in the name of John Peel, a man who had a profound effect on my musical life and indeed my becoming a musician at all. His career as a non-musician who altered the course of music has been an inspiration to me and forms the basis of this talk."

The annual BBC Music John Peel Lecture invites a notable figure from the music industry to shape a debate and create insight around music and music-related media.