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Radio 3,09 Feb 2013,45 mins

Simone Young, Toscanini, Autism and Music

Music Matters

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Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Tom Service talks to the Australian conductor Simone Young, reviews two new books about Arturo Toscanini, and discovers the connections between music, language and autism. Plus we mark the anniversary of the death of Wagner. Producer Emma Bloxham.

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