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Sir Isaiah Berlin: the Historian of Ideas

on BBC Radio 3

Humphrey Carpenter presents an evening dedicated to the memory, music and ideas of Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died on 5 November. Friends and colleagues discuss his contribution to the life of the mind in Britain through a brilliant academic career, a great gift for friendship and an uncanny ability to bring the history of ideas to life.
7.40 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D959
Alfred Brendel
8.00 Some Sources of Romanticism
The Lasting Effects
The final Mellon Lecture delivered by Sir Isaiah Berlin in 1965 in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
8.35 Mozart Don Giovanni (Act 2 Scene 5)
Conductor Otto Klemperer
8.55 Michael Ignatieff talks about the great Russian writers who influenced Isaiah Berlin.
9.05 A Fire at Sea
Ivan Turgenev 's drama translated and introduced by Isaiah Berlin.
9.23 Humphrey Carpenter talks to
Isaiah Berlin's literary executor Henry Hardy and to academics, philosophers and friends and asks whether future generations will catch the vibrancy and breadth of what has been called one of the most illustrious intellectual adventures of this century.
9.45 Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131 Busch Quartet
9.55 Sir Isaiah Berlin
Producer Neil Trevithick

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Alfred Brendel
Unknown:
Mozart Don Giovanni
Conductor:
Otto Klemperer
Talks:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Isaiah Berlin.
Unknown:
Ivan Turgenev
Introduced By:
Isaiah Berlin.
Talks:
Humphrey Carpenter
Unknown:
Henry Hardy
Unknown:
Isaiah Berlin
Producer:
Neil Trevithick

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