Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace - the creation of the late Sir Georg Solti - in a programme which contrasts Shostakovich's anguished wartime symphony with the timeless ebb and flow of Debussy's seascapes.

World Orchestra for Peace, conductor Valery Gergiev.

Debussy La Mer

7.30 Twenty Minutes: The South: 9
The last in a series of programmes in which writers discuss what the south means to them.
David Malouf gives an antipodean view of the south.

7.50 Shostakovich Symphony No 7 (Leningrad)

(Also broadcast on BBC2)
(Repeated on Friday 15 September at 2pm)
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Brian Kay's Prom of the Week: page 38