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A rare London appearance for acclaimed conductor Zubin Mehta who leads the Vienna Philharmonic as they perform Haydn's Drumroll Symphony and Alban Berg's Three Fragments from his opera Wozzeck, concluding with Stravinsky's exhilarating orchestral masterpiece The Rite of Spring.
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Island Interviews with former inmates. their friends, lawyers and warders of the notorious high-security prison situated in the Atlantic Ocean, just off Cape Town. First used by the British to incarcerate the African chiefs who opposed their colonial rule, more recent inmates have included political prisoners such as Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela.

1/2. An exploration of the links between Harold Pinter 's plays and the very rooms in which they were crafted, from the East End house in the which he grew up and wrote his first poetry, to the flat where he wrote The Caretaker.

: Bob Dylan. Jean Genet.
Orson Welles and Francis Bacon are among the subjects in a look back at the most memorable editions of the past 30 years. With contributions from film-makers Alan Yentob and Nigel Williams

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Debate: Jonathan Freedland chairs a debate on Britain's education system