BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology
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Sep 28, 2026
Jess BrayGUEST
Nathan's from a small town in the Midlands.
Jess BrayGUEST
Like I think both of us probably did have that quite London centric view when we were, I mean, I was watching like, I was watching documentaries about the Brit school and crying every night.
Jess BrayGUEST
Like I couldn't believe, and Brit school, if you don't know what that is, sorry, Marcel, it's like, where basically, like, Adele went there.
Nathan FoadGUEST
Who else went there, Nathan? Well, Jessie J, of course.
Nathan FoadGUEST
I'm sorry.
EvanHOST
So Adele Laurie Blue Adkins was born 5th May 1988 in Tottenham, London.
EvanHOST
May 2005 attended the Brit School where she was classmates with Leona Lewis and Jessie J.
EvanHOST
Four months after graduating from the Brit School, Adele continued writing music.
EvanHOST
She published two songs in the fourth issue of the online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com. September 2006, signed to XL Records.
EvanHOST
June 2007, made her TV debut performing Daydreamer on Later with Jules Holland.
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EvanHOST
Like her personality.
EvanHOST
She just, she's so likeable and so real and so down to earth.
EvanHOST
Like you were saying, she comes, she seems very working class and it's because she's from Tottenham and she was working in a cafe in Tottenham before she, you know, while attending Brit school.
Natasha ClarkeGUEST
I've been dancing since I was four.
Natasha ClarkeGUEST
Went to the Brit school, done the MTV Awards, was on the Brit Awards, like living life.
Natasha ClarkeGUEST
I was like, I have made it.
Natasha ClarkeGUEST
And then I had a fall and I injured my back and I got degenerating disc disease.
Felicity EvansHOST
You can listen to our summer sit-down with Helen Jenner if you want to find out the name of that band and indeed some of the other stuff about teaching at
Daniel DaviesCORRESPONDENT
the Brit School and so on.
Felicity EvansHOST
The other thing that's happened this week is the publication of the programme for government.
Felicity EvansHOST
Clark, you're going to come in and join us on this as well, aren't you? Now, it's not unusual.
Rupa HuqGUEST
Don't know what you guys think.
Samira AhmedGUEST
The principal of the Brit School, which has produced Livia Dean and Adele, I did an event with him last year, and he talked about actually the importance of not giving your work away for free, which is such a pressure on young people to put it out there for free on those various streaming channels and to sort of keep songwriting.
Samira AhmedGUEST
But they're doing it.
Samira AhmedGUEST
I don't know how you...
Mackenzie BykowskiHOST
And in her early teens, she discovered Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald, which she has described as a turning point that made her take music seriously.
Mackenzie BykowskiHOST
And so just to demonstrate how seriously she took her music, she attended the Brit School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon, starting around age 14 and graduating in May of 2006.
Mackenzie BykowskiHOST
So this is a very well-known, famous performing arts school in the UK.
Mackenzie BykowskiHOST
Her classmates included Leona Lewis, Jessie J, and Amy Winehouse's Circle.
Jordan StephensHOST
And I'll, I'll tell you one thing.
Jordan StephensHOST
I, as a 17-year-old or 18-year-old, in my school, in my college film project, I studied media at Brit school, right? And I had to, I shot like the first part of a comedy, a two, a-
Miquita OliverHOST
Oh.
Jordan StephensHOST
Sorry.
Sam MarshallHOST
Started teaching, did a teaching qualification, did a PGCE.
Sam MarshallHOST
I then taught at a place called the Brit School in London.
Sam MarshallHOST
performing arts school but it has a really good art department so I worked there for four years part-time while also teaching for the Royal Drawing School and then I bought this cottage kept teaching for the Royal Drawing School in London I was teaching on their foundation program so I did that for goodness me seven years seven years I think I was um one of the core tutors on the foundation program and then I moved here COVID hit I then got a book deal with Bloomsbury I then said I don't want to do any more teaching in London because I was traveling backwards and forwards to London staying with Carly and Francis in the week and then coming back at the weekends um So I've had all sorts of jobs.
Sam MarshallHOST
You know, I've done absolutely everything.
speaker_0HOST
No, I, I was gonna say actually, because we'd, we'd spoken previously to this, and, um, how you could have got into the BRIT.
speaker_0HOST
Was it BRIT School?
Gabrielle FoulshamGUEST
Yeah, BRIT School.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah.
Gabrielle FoulshamGUEST
Yeah.
Gabrielle FoulshamGUEST
I've never seen it." And from that I was like, "Okay, well, I'm gonna be taking music." And it got to choosing my GCSEs and they went, "Oh, we've cut all the funding.
Gabrielle FoulshamGUEST
We're not doing it." Um, so that, that stopped me from learning music, but I still wanted to.
Gabrielle FoulshamGUEST
And then my mum and dad were like, "Let's look at the BRIT School." And we...
TaliaHOST
She ended up being a model.
TaliaHOST
She also sang really beautifully, and she went to the BRIT School of Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon.
TanyaHOST
Ooh.
TaliaHOST
Uh, that's a huge accomplishment.
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