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Night Waves

BBC Radio 3
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Walt Whitman 's Leaves of Grass has been said to define and embody the American soul. Patrick Wright discusses a major new study of the poet's life and work and explores how his writing - condemned in his lifetime as "dirty" - shaped the course of American literature. He also talks to one of America's acclaimed contemporary writers - poet and novelist Paul Auster. Plus news from tonight's opening of Tom Stoppard 's The Real Thing, with Stephen Dillane , Jennifer Ehle and Nigel Lindsay.
Producer Julian May

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Walt Whitman
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Patrick Wright
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Paul Auster.
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Tom Stoppard
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Stephen Dillane
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Jennifer Ehle
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Nigel Lindsay.
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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