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Authority
The satirist and broadcaster Armando lannucci selects poetry, prose and music around the theme of authority, spanning gods, kings, the state and parents; and encompassing anarchy, rebellion and disobedience. Including Pope's Essay on Man and extracts from Milton's Paradise Lost, Primo Levi 's If This Is a Man and Orwell's Shooting an Elephant, with music by Britten, Respighi, Joni Mitchell and Copland's Lincoln Portrait narrated by Margaret Thatcher. EMAIL: wordsandmusic@bbc.co.uk
For details of the music and verse heard in this programme, visitwww.bbc.co.uk/radio3/wordsandmusic

Contributors

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Armando Lannucci
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Primo Levi
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Joni Mitchell
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Margaret Thatcher.
Source: Radio Times

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