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Night Waves

BBC Radio 3
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Stephen Sondheim 's very first musical, Saturday Night, receives its world premiere tonight in London. Originally begun, and aborted, in 1955, it is based on a book by the screenwriters of Casablanca. But is it a curious period piece or lost masterpiece? Tony Palmer reports. And historian Martha Hodes tackles one of the most volatile topics in American history in her new book, White Women, Black Men: Illicit
Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South. Tony Palmer discusses the stories she has uncovered and their legacy in modern race relations. Producer Rob Ketteridge

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Stephen Sondheim
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Tony Palmer
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Martha Hodes
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Tony Palmer
Producer:
Rob Ketteridge
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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