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Night Waves

on BBC Radio 3

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Asian writer to win a Nobel Prize. He was a poet, painter and composer, and is now venerated above all others in his native Bengal. Lisa Jardine reports on his shifting reputation, both in his homeland and in the West, in the light of a major new biography.
Producer Louise Swan

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Rabindranath Tagore
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Lisa Jardine
Producer:
Louise Swan

BBC Radio 3

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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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