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30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Samira Ahmed reviews the new play Photograph 51, starring Nicole Kidman as scientist Rosalind Franklin. Plus Sebastian Faulks talks about his new novel Where My Heart Used to Beat. Show more
The story behind Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner bring to life the exciting times that shaped Beethoven personally and creatively. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Arts news. Le Week-End reviewed, John Eliot Gardiner discusses his new book on Bach, and neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reviews Breathless, ITV's new hospital drama set in the '60s. Show more
Shot on location in St John's Smith Square in London, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique perform Beethoven's iconic Fifth Symphony. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Live from Edinburgh with guests including Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi at 450, Apphia Campbell, and Guillaume Pigé, director of physical theatre company Theatre Re. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of Monteverdi with an investigation into his life and music, exploring what made him a modernist and a radical. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner talks to Tom Service about his book on Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. Show more
Marking his sixtieth Prom, Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a celebration of the early works of Handel and Bach. Show more
