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Private Passions

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Michael Berkeley talks to Sir Peter Hall , former head of the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the director of a raft of late 20th-century theatrical and operatic productions both in the UK and abroad. Earlier this year he directed Euripides's Bacchai at the National Theatre, and last month his new production of Shaw's Mrs Warren 's
Profession opened in London's West End. His musical choices include operatic extracts byCavalli, Mozart, Schoenberg and Britten, as well as Beethoven's
Diabelli Variations, Thelonious Monk's
Round Midnight, and Earth Dances by his former musical collaborator, Harrison Birtwistle. Repeated tomorrow 3pm

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Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Sir Peter Hall
Unknown:
Mrs Warren
Unknown:
Harrison Birtwistle.
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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