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Pick of the Week: Peter Curran

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30/08/2015

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Peter Curran chooses his BBC Radio highlights.

Peter Curran is in the Pick of the Week chair and his selections include... 

The extraordinary recovery of Iraq's persecuted Marsh Arabs...
Birthday-boy Van Morrison's work with the Chieftains 
Harry Shearer in New Orleans, on why the city's devastation was not the fault of Hurricane Katrina.
Elvis Presley's secret record collection...
Britain's returning Ogre of personal debt...
The golden era of Music for Schools
.... and artist Francis Bacon - from the Soho demi-monde to Screaming Popes.

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