Shostakovich and His Heroes
8/12. Presented by Petroc Trelawny live from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Mark Stone (baritone), Halle Choir ,
Royal Northern College of Music Chorus, Halle Orchestra , conductor Mark Elder Stravinsky Scherzo a la Russe
Shostakovich Symphony No 3 (The First of May)
8.10 Twenty Minutes: Glob Girls PV Glob's The Bog People, published 40 years ago, was about the extraordinary Iron Age bodies found in Danish peat bogs. Archaeologist Christine Finn discovers that the book might never have been written if it hadn't been for a group of convent schoolgirls from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
8.30 Mahler Kindertotenlieder Shostakovich Symphony No 9
This series continues on Monday at 7.30pm