2/3. How The Magic Flute,
Idomeneo and The Marriage of Figaro revolutionised musical theatre. Part three on Friday at 9pm on BBC2. See Friday's choice.
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Irma Kurtz visits Egypt.
Kevin MacDonald talks about Touching the Void, and there's reviews of Spellbound and Standing in the Shadows of Motown.
Clarinettist Artie Shaw is remembered as one of the greatest musicians of the swing era. Russell Davies looks at his life and music.
The story of Sean O'Callaghan , self-confessed IRA bomb-maker, murderer and double agent, jailed for 539 years in 1988, but released in 1996.
James Callaghan and Martin McGuinness are among the contributors to this examination of the confrontation that drew British troops to Londonderry.
Darragh Macintyre chronicles a year in office with Belfast's first Sinn Fein mayor, Alec Maskey.
