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Lebrecht Live

BBC Radio 3
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Why Are We All Reading Children's Books? At a time when fiction is flourishing as never before, more and more adults are turning to children's literature for relaxation and their commuter read. So what's going on? Are readers retreating into childhood fantasy? Are we becoming willingly infantilised? Do children's books offer a purer form of escapism than adults literature? Or are we so bored with repetitive descriptions of sexual callisthenics and relationship difficulties that we turn to children's writers for an honest, untainted view of the world? To send in your views, EMAIL: lebrecht.liveH'bbc.co.uk, write to: Lebrecht Live, BBC R3, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA, or phone (from 5pm) on [number removed]444

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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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