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Private PassionsAlan Bennett Clips

  1. The voice that sums up ‘what music means to me’

    Duration: 03:23

  2. Alan Bennett on Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier

    Duration: 04:37

  3. "It's only recently I've felt able to confess that there are these 'non-favourites'..."

    Duration: 01:48

  4. "The words are wonderfully funny..."

    Duration: 02:55

  5. 'Elizabeth Taylor actually sat on my knee at one point'

    Duration: 02:09

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