This week, Michael Berkeley is joined by poet Craig Raine , Fellow in English at New College, Oxford. His published writings include four poetry collections and the libretto for Nigel Osborne 's opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union. Craig Raine 's musical passions are wide-ranging: Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and ballet music by Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky and Stravinsky rub shoulders with Carmen Jones and Dr Hook and the Medicine Show.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson