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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.

Anne McElvoy

Laura Thomas

Rachel Campbell-Johnston

Mark Shenton

Caroline Warman

Hermione Lee

Simon Garfield

Irmin Schmidt

Lawrence Norfolk

Alexis Petridis

John Jungclaussen

Night Waves: 2013 Turner Prize Announcement, Candide Review, the Value of Letters, Can

Candide Review, The Value of Letters, 2013 Turner Prize Announcement

02/12/2013

2013 Turner Prize Announcement, Candide Review, the Value of Letters, Can

BBC Radio 3 - Night Waves, 2013 Turner Prize Announcement, Candide Review, the Value of Letters, Can

Including the 2013 Turner Prize winner, Bernstein's Candide and a discussion about letters

Presented by Anne McElvoy. With the 2013 Turner Prize winner, a review of Bernstein's Candide, asking how letters give an insight into the creative mind, and experimental band Can.

Turner Prize 2013
Art critic for The Times Rachel Campbell-Johnston profiles the work of Laure Prouvost, this year's winner, announced today. 

Candide 
Former Royal Ballet star Adam Cooper choreographs a new staging of Leonard Bernstein's notoriously tricky Candide at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. Theatre critic of The Stage Mark Shenton and Tutor in French at Jesus College Oxford Caroline Warman review. 

Literary Letters
Hermione Lee and Simon Garfield discuss the insight personal letters give into writers' lives and creative processes, and also consider the moral implications of studying them.

Can
Experimental band Can changed the face of music in the 1960s. Dubbed Krautrock by unthinking British critics, two members of the band had in fact studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, and went on to mix his ideas with free jazz, Moroccan and Japanese music styles and intense performance to create a new and highly influential sound. Can founder member Irmin Schmidt, novelist Lawrence Norfolk, music writer Alexis Petridis and London correspondent for Die Zeit, John Jungclaussen, consider their music and its influence. 

Producer: Laura Thomas.

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