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Cultural life, the radio four podcast, she reveals her formative influences and experiences, and how her passion for playing was there from the start. I knew very young there was no question i wanted to play the violin. There was no question that that was what i must do and had to do and wanted to do. Have you played here much, nicky . They chuckle nicola benedetti, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you so much for having me. Its an absolute pleasure. You were born and brought up in north ayr...

But its the truth both of your parents were born in italy, werent they . Yes. Was it an italian household culturally growing up . Its a good question. I would say both parents assimilated very concretely and quite deliberately with scottishness and scottish culture, but they also came over very young. My mum was three years old. An italian speaking three year old with an italian mother and scottish father. Um. Came over to scotland and, er. Was sort of banned from speaking italian quite quickly....

At the beginning. with this method, youre learning tunes immediately. and therefore, it is music immediately. its not a whole load of technical work before you get to play a tune. but it came naturally to you. i mean, your earliest memories are of music being made and it feeling like it was something you should do? i think that i had an intensity towards the music itself, and a real ability to want to express that. there has to be some impetus and purpose thats attached to anything youre then go...

When he was kind of ten or ii. came over without his parents. had a rough time, you know, adjusting to such a different culture. it was a good, healthy mix. but as far as mealtimes go and food, we were italian all the way. you mentioned you started playing the violin at the age of four. yeah. what started you off? so we had a very strong suzuki—method institution within ayrshire. they had an incredible sort of routine of how to not only encourage the young people to start, but the method in it...

You mentioned you started playing the violin at the age of four. yeah. what started you off? so we had a very strong suzuki—method institution within ayrshire. they had an incredible sort of routine of how to not only encourage the young people to start, but the method in itself is really... it sort of predicated around the idea of the inner ear. so although youre learning to read at some point and youre learning to play an instrument, which, as you know, is incredibly complex and can be a slo...

Learning tunes immediately. and therefore, it is music immediately. its not a whole load of technical work before you get to play a tune. i think that i had an intensity towards the music itself, and a real ability to want to express that. there has to be some impetus and purpose thats attached to anything youre then going to do for that long. and for me, it was the emotional music, it was things that were moving. i was moved to tears by pieces i was learning when i was as young as six. um...tha...