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Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Over 350 editions available in the archive.

Radio 3’s flagship arts programme until 2013. Search the extensive archive for interviews, debates and reviews. Go to Free Thinking for the new home of arts and ideas on Radio 3.

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Night Waves: Britten 100: Britten Libretti, Young Vic Theatre Uncut

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Britten 100: Britten Libretti, Young Vic Theatre Uncut

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, Britten 100: Britten Libretti, Young Vic Theatre Uncut

Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris discuss Myfanwy Piper's libretti for Britten.

With Anne McElvoy. For Radio 3's Britten 100 season, Frances Spalding and Alexandra Harris discuss Myfanwy Piper's libretto writing. Plus the Young Vic's Theatre Uncut season.

As part of Radio 3's Britten 100 - Anne McElvoy discusses Myfanwy Piper's libretto writing with Professor Frances Spalding author of a biography of the Pipers and Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker in 2011.
We also report on The Young Vic's Theatre Uncut season which features plays addressing current political issues. This year's playwrights include Neil LaBute, Mark Thomas and Tanika Gupta.

Producer: Neil Trevithick

Image: Lauren Crace and David Hounslow in The Wing by Clara Brennan. Photo by Richard Davenport.

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