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Radio 4,15 Feb 2010,45 mins

15/02/2010

Start the Week

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Andrew Marr gains insight into the workings of government offices with the investigative journalist Michael Cockerell and the former MP Lord Hurd. Jonathan Miller gives a 19th-century Italian opera a 1950s American facelift, and Lyndall Gordon argues that it's time to look again at the life of the poet Emily Dickinson.

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