Paul Gambaccini relives Christmas Eve 1955 and the Weavers sell-out reunion concert, 3 years after Pete Seeger's blacklisting for communist sympathies had forced them to break up. Show more
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Saturday Review
13/10/2012
45 minutes
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Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the film Ruby Sparks, the drama Enquirer, a new Thomas Kenneally novel, another television Sherlock and Richard Hamilton at the National Gallery. Show more
Open Book
Michael Chabon on his latest novel Telegraph Avenue
28 minutes
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Michael Chabon on his latest novel Telegraph Avenue; writing biographies of the living and the dead; and how Dickens' faults can reveal his genius. Presented by Mariella Frostrup. Show more
Start the Week
Richard Ford on the US Elections
43 minutes
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Andrew Marr discusses the state of the US with American authors Richard Ford and Lionel Shriver, journalist Edward Luce and chair of Republicans Abroad UK Thomas Grant. Show more
One to One
Kate Silverton on how our fear of failure impacts on the choices we make.
14 minutes
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Kate Silverton talks to businesswoman Kate Hardcastle on how her experience of bullying at school impacted on her life choices and made her initially afraid to take a risk. Show more
Miranda Sawyer explores how one of music’s most distinct artists emerged from the 'year zero' of punk. From 2012.
Music Matters
Pierrot Lunaire, Inside-Out Piano, Saint-Saens
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
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Tom Service talks to conductor Kent Nagano, newly appointed music director at Hamburg State Opera, and explores Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with soprano Jane Manning.
Night Waves
Keats, Michael Chabon, The Ash Tree
45 minutes
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Matthew Sweet examines a new biography of John Keats that offers a reassessment of the celebrated romantic poet as a tragic figure. Show more
Professor Barry Cunliffe discusses Vortigern, the king whom history has often held responsible for inviting to the British Isles the first Anglo-Saxon invaders. Show more
Night Waves
Hanna Rosin, Hollywood Costume, Psychoanalysis and Climate Change, 1922
45 minutes
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Philip Dodd discusses The End of Men and the Rise of Women with author Hanna Rosin, 1922 with Kevin Jackson, psychoanalysis and climate change, and the V and A's Hollywood Costume. Show more