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Episode 4: Get Playing: Peter Bradshaw's electric guitar

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Film critic Peter Bradshaw describes how he was reunited with his electric guitar.

As part of BBC Music Get Playing, film critic Peter Bradshaw describes how he was reunited with his electric guitar decades after having given it away.

As part of BBC Get Music Playing supporting amateur music making around the UK, 5 leading writers and artists contribute an Essay in this series, in which they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument. 

In the 4th programme of the series, the Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw describes how he was reunited with his electric guitar, decades after having given it away. 

He explores what playing the instrument meant to him as a youngster and assesses how he approaches it now as an adult. He examines the pleasures and pitfalls of relearning an instrument. And he marvels at the beauty of the electric guitar itself. 

For more information visit bbc.co.uk/getplaying

Producer: Emma Kingsley.

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.

Writers and artists they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument.

As part of the BBC Music Get Playing scheme, leading writers and artists they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument

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