Michael Berkeley talks to the novelist and translator Tim Parks , who was born in Manchester but moved to Italy in 1981. His work includes three non-fiction accounts of life there - most recently
A Season with Verona- and 11 novels, of which Europa was shortlisted forthe Booker Prize. His latest novel,
Judge Savage , was published earlierthis year. His musical passions include Bach,
Vivaldi, Mozart, Chopin, English folk songs and Paul Simon 's The Boy in the Bubble. Repeated tomorrow 3pm