Max Reinhardt (radio presenter)

Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt in the BBC Radio 3 studio in June 2012
Born	14th May 1951 London, England
Occupation	broadcaster/musical director/writer/
Years active	50
Employer	Self

Max Reinhardt, (born 14th May 1951) is a radio presenter who presented Late Junction on BBC Radio 3.

Career

Max presented shows for BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service for 22 years. For 11 years, he was a presenter for Late Junction, a music programme which used to be broadcast three nights a week on BBC Radio 3. In addition, he was the musical consultant/co-scriptwriter for the South African music series Freedom Sounds on BBC Radio 2, presented a documentary on BBC Radio 4 about his music theatre piece Ketubah and, with Rita Ray was a regular presenter of Global Beats on BBC World Service and they also made a Sunday Feature, nearly 20 years ago,for BBC Radio 3 'In Search of Fela Kuti'. Currently he presents the bi-weekly Late Late Lunch Show @sohoradio (wednesdays 4-6pm) and the monthly Maximum Reinhardt Show @morleyradio. With Rita Ray he also presents Mwalimu Express Radio Show @sohoradio

Through the late 80's and onwards, Max and Rita worked together as Dj's in a series of clubs, from the Mambo Inn (with Gerry Lyseight) to The Shrine, mixing Latin and African music withReggae, Funk, Jazz and Soul, increasingly working with live artists in their internationally touring electro acoustic band The Shrine Synchro System.

As well as his work with the BBC and , Max was the co-founder with Tim Webb and musical director at Oily Cart, a theatre company established in 1981 that works with children with complex disabilities.His other musical direction work includes music for shows with Ockham's Razor,Proteus Theatre and for the BBC Children's TV series Playdays. He is an associate artist with Oxford Contemporary Music and the founder of The Instant Orchestra who appear annually as The Instant Scorehestra in the Lavish Lounge at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, improvising film scores to feature films old and new. More recently he has joined the Oxford Improvisers {{cite web|url=https:https://www.oxfordimprovisers.com/

He also edited the memoirs of Jewish-Algerian pianist Maurice El Mediouni, 'A Memoir - From Oran to Marseilles(1938-1992, translated from the French by Jonathan Walton published in 2017 by Repeater Books.

Personal life

Max's parents were Adele Bennett, who worked in the Fashion industry and Morris Bennett, a chartered accountant & antique dealer. He attended Quintin [Kynaston] School in St John's Wood before reading English & American Arts and Letters at Exeter University, UK. He now lives in Oxford, England and has always enjoyed listening to and playing a wide range of music.