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Baltasar and Blimunda John Clifford 's dramatisation of one of the finest modern European novels, Memorial do Convento by the Portuguese writer Jose Saramago , who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A beguiling and soaringly imaginative blend of realism and fantasy, it is set in early 18th-century Portugal during the reign of King Juao V.
Director Patrick Rayner

Contributors

Unknown:
Blimunda John Clifford
Unknown:
Jose Saramago
Director:
Patrick Rayner
Baltasar:
Liam Brennan
Blimunda:
Katherine Igoe
Padre Bartolomeu:
John Paul Hurley
Domenico Scarlatti:
Richard Greenwood
The King:
Jamie Newall
The Queen:
Emma Currie
Sebastiana:
Joanna Tope
The Inquisitor:
James Bryce
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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