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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives

Private Passions: Donna Leon

10/03/2013

Donna Leon

BBC Radio 3 - Private Passions, Donna Leon

Michael Berkeley's guest is American crime writer Donna Leon.

Michael Berkeley's guest is American crime writer Donna Leon. Passionate about baroque music, her choices include opera arias by Handel and Vivaldi. Part of Baroque Spring.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the American crime writer Donna Leon, whose best-selling novels, set in Venice, feature the Italian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti. Donna Leon is passionate about baroque music, and her choices include arias from operas by Handel, Vivaldi and early Mozart, as well as by Bellini and Verdi.

Part of Baroque Spring

First broadcast in May 2000.

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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