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Michael Berkeley 's guest today is
Claire Tomalin , former literary editor of the New Statesman and The
Sunday Times and an award-winning biographer whose subjects have included Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft , Katherine Mansfield and, most recently, Jane Austen. Her musical choices include classic recordings of keyboard music by Bach and Beethoven, songs by Schumann and Duparc, and the ebullient waltz scene from Act 2 of Eugene Onegin. Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated tomorrow 6.30pm

Contributors

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Michael Berkeley
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Claire Tomalin
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Katherine Mansfield
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Jane Austen.
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Eugene Onegin.
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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