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Michael Berkeley's guest today is American author Donna Leon, who has just published Friends in High Places, the latest in her much acclaimed series of crime novels featuring the Italian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti. Donna Leon lives in Venice, where she teaches at the American University, and Italian Baroque music features high on her list of musical choices today, along with works by Mozart, Bellini and Verdi.

(Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Berkeley
Guest:
Donna Leon
Executive Producer:
Wendy Thompson
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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