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Essential Classics

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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Thursday - Sarah Walker

Thursday - Sarah Walker

15/11/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential Choice: Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18 No 4.

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Five Italian Oboe Concertos played by Nicholas Daniel; Pianist Noriko Ogawa; Essential Choice: Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18 No 4.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Five Italian Oboe Concertos played by Nicholas Daniel - HELIOS CDH55034

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Noriko Ogawa

10.30am
Tomorrow (16th November) it's BBC Children in Need, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the British author Anne Fine, the second Children's Laureate from 2001-2003 and a distinguished prize-winning writer for children of all ages.

Anne has written more than fifty books for children and eight books for adults, many of them having won prestigious awards. Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal and was adapted for television by the BBC; her novel The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; and Madame Doubtfire has become a major feature film starring Robin Williams. 

Anne's books for adults include The Killjoy, her first novel, which received critical acclaim and was runner up for the David Higham Prize for Fiction. Two of her other novels include Taking the Devil's Advice and Telling Liddy and have both been adapted for radio.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Beethoven: String Quartet Op.18 No. 4
Mosaïques String Quartet
NAÏVE 8899.

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