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Sunday Feature: Reading by Example

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

In a week of live music, debate, talks and features Radio 3 explores the relationship between art and its past.
Valentine Cunningham takes as a starting point
TS Eliot's influential essay Tradition and the Individual Talent to explore theories and practices of influence, borrowing, originality and belatedness. From Harold Bloom's Anxiety of Influence to the parodies of postmodernism - what is the future of the literary past in our new century?

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Valentine Cunningham
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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