Sunday Feature: An Anatomy of Singing

As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Mary King investigates how advances in knowledge of anatomy are changing the way people sing. She hears from Andrew Watts, Toby Spence and Connie Fisher, three singers whose personal vocal experiences have resulted in contrasting relationships with their vocal anatomy. Mary gathers the latest findings from within the music and scientific community and tests out some of the more popular theories of yesteryear. And at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dr Sam Alberti explains what our forebears would have discovered by dissecting specimens of the larynx and thorax, still on display today