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on BBC Radio 3

Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is poet and scholar Ruth Padel , whose publications include volumes of poetry and two major studies of madness in Greek mythology, including Whom Gods Destroy.
She comes from a musical family, and her choices are wide-ranging, from Bach's Double Violin Concerto and a Beethoven quartet to Greek and Irish folk music and the voices of Maria Callas , Fred Astaire and Bessie Smith.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Contributors

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Michael Berkeley
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Ruth Padel
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Maria Callas
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Fred Astaire
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Bessie Smith.
Producer:
Wendy Thompson

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