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

BBC Radio 3

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Twenty Minutes

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media: Arts

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating subjects

Eclectic arts magazine programme, exploring a range of fascinating people, places and events

Twenty Minutes: The Conductor

Factual: Life Stories

Factual: History

Music: Classical

The Conductor

24/08/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Twenty Minutes, The Conductor

Excerpt from Sarah Quigley's novel about Shostakovich writing The English Poets project.

Carl Prekopp reads an excerpt from Sarah Quigley's novel about Shostakovich writing The English Poets project.

"It seemed he'd been waiting all his life for the knock at the door.."

In an extract from Sarah Quigley's novel, all eyes are on Dimitri Shostakovich.
He's sleepy, bumbling around the kitchen, trying to make his morning porridge.
A knock at the door has unsettled him, but that's the least of his concerns. 
Where is his wife, Nina? What is happening in his city, Leningrad?

And what about the work he has to do?

Read by Carl Prekopp

Producer Duncan Minshull.

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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