An eight-part series in which Sir
George Christie , present owner and chairman of Glyndebourne, traces the history of the festival in conversation with James Naughtie. 7: Arrivals and Farewells
The eighties were Glyndebourne's last decade in the much-loved old house and saw some old favourites bowing out and some startling new arrivals. Sir George Christie looks back at a period in which
Glyndebourne embraced 20th-century opera with a new zeal, culminating in an astonishing premiere of an all-black Porgy and Bess. Featuring excerpts from Gluck's Orfeo, Strauss's Intermezzo. Oliver
Knussen's Where the Wild Things
Are and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with contributions from Dame Janet
Baker, Anthony Whitworth Jones and Sir Simon Rattle.