15/04/2013
Matthew Sweet with a review of The Sunken Garden a new opera collaboration with libretto by best-selling author David Mitchell and score by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa.
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Desertion
Charles Glass and Ben Griffin discuss desertion in the armed forces.
Duration: 21:34
Sunken Garden
Andrew Dickson reviews the opera.
Duration: 06:11
Willa Cather
Hermione Lee discusses the writer's newly published private letters.
Duration: 06:54
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sandra Hebron and Mary Wild discuss the late film director and his film Theorem.
Duration: 10:00
Charles Glass
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Deserter: the last untold story of the Second World War by Charles Glass is published by HarperPress.Ben Griffin
Ben Griffin is a former SAS soldier and founder of Veterans for Peace UK.Sunken Garden
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Sunken Gardenis a collaboration between the English National Opera and Barbican. It is on at Barbican, London currently booking until Saturday 20th April.
Photograph (c) Mike Hoban.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Theorem is on at venues across London, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Penzance from 12th April.
Photograph courtesy of BFI.
Willa Cather
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The Selected Letters of Willa Cather is published by Knopf Publishing Group.
Photograph Credit: Philip L and Helen Cather Southwick Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.
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