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Essential Classics: Monday - Rob Cowan

Monday - Rob Cowan

30/07/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Symphony No 5 in F, Op 76.

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Opera overtures conducted by Albert Wolff; Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Symphony No 5 in F, Op 76.

Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope. Following in the footsteps of her relation Anthony Trollope, the prolific Victorian novelist famous for the Barchester Chronicles, the Palliser sequence and 'The Way We Live Now', Joanna has published a series of best-selling novels chronicling aspects of contemporary British life, including 'The Choir', 'A Village Affair', 'The Rector's Wife' and 'Other People's Children', all of which have been made into TV series. Her latest novels are 'The Other Family' (2010) and 'Daughters-in-Law' (2011). The popularity of her novels among middle-class readers has led to them being dubbed 'Aga-sagas'. She has also published several historical novels under the nom-de-plume Caroline Harvey, and a study of women in the British Empire, 'Britannia's Daughters'. She was born in the Cotswolds, and divides her time between her homes in Gloucestershire and London. In 2012 she chaired the Orange Prize for Fiction.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Opera overtures conducted by Albert Wolff and the Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performance by the Artists of the Week, the Guarneri Quartet.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Dvorak
Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Sejna (conductor)
SUPRAPHON 1917-2.

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