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Ian McMillan presents Saturday night's line-up of new writing, performance and literature from around the world. Tonight Julian Barnes talks about the writing of illness and his new English translation of the deathbed diaries of Alphonse Daudet - a forgotten masterpiece of 19th-century French literature. There's performance and discussion of the French chanson and its equivalent in English, and from
Greenland, a report on how a population of just 50,000 sustains an Inuit language and literature.

Contributors

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Ian McMillan
Talks:
Julian Barnes
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Alphonse Daudet
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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