from Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
Conductor Simon Rattle
Sibelius Tapiola
Mark Anthony Turnage Drowned Out
8.15 From Hell to Heaven:
Four Weeks in Afghanistan "In blinding white heat to the Hotel de Kandahar.
Three beds in a sweltering room. The Coca-Cola was a fake..."
In the week that sees the publication of the late Bruce Chatwin's notebooks and photographs, tonight's extract describes one of his three trips to Afghanistan - never before published. Reader Jeremy Northam.
8.35 Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat (Eroica)