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Private Passions

BBC Radio 3
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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

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Talks:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Tim Parks
Unknown:
Judge Savage
Unknown:
Paul Simon
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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