PaulBunyan
New series 1/10. In the first of a ten-part series focusing on Benjamin Britten 's operas, John Evans , an expert on the composer, talks to distinguished interpreters of the operas about performances and recordings with which they are closely associated, and about the problems and pleasures of performing Britten. This week Francesca Zambello discusses Britten's first attempt at writing for the stage, the opera Paul Bunyan , which he wrote in America in the 1940s in collaboration with WH Auden. See also 9.30pm