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What Books I Please

on BBC Radio 3

'if you were to read
Richardson for the story,' said Dr Johnson, ' your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. The writer and philosopher
Mary Midgley says that the fascination of Clarissa lies not in its plot, but in the book's portrayal of ' the boiling cauldrons which threaten our sober attempts to reduce life to order'.

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Mary Midgley

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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