Music and Musicians

Edmund Stone

Edmund Stone grew up on an English farm and listened constantly to BBC Radio where he developed an early fascination for entertainment. In his late teens he joined a youth theater and toured in Romeo & Juliet before moving to Scotland, where his love for radio, film and writing merged together when he became a film correspondent for BBC Radio and Thompson Publications. Stone needed a larger canvas to work with and moved to Hollywood in 1980, covering the Academy Awards, interviewing Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Blanc, and eventually narrating more than 1,000 educational audio stories. Thirty years later he is still doing the work he loves. Stone hosts programming on All Classical FM on weekend afternoons and evenings, occasionally emcees events and classical concerts, and sometimes even narrates with orchestras. In 2006 Stone created The Score, a national (and now international) syndicated film music program, heard on All Classical FM every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Writing, producing and hosting this program is a wonderful opportunity for him to share, with listeners, his passion for symphonic music in the movies.

The British, they say, are crazy about their gardens. He is, too. This helped when he begame a vegetarian in 1997 and could grow some of his own food. Stone’s childhood love of animals has always made him aware of their importance on our planet. In 1997 he co-founded In Defense of Animals-Africa which operates a chimpanzee rescue center in Cameroon, West Africa.