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Tom Service visits the Aldeburgh Festival as it prepares to mark the centenary of the birth of Suffolk composer Benjamin Britten with a staging on the beach of his opera Peter Grimes. Ronald Blythe, the author of Akenfield - the book of rural realism based in Suffolk talks to Tom about his time working with Britten, and as Radio 3 celebrates British music, there's a look at the vitality of Welsh composition both past and present. Author Paul Elie discusses his new book Reinventing Bach. Conductor and Bach expert Andrew Parrott gives his verdict on the book and its take on Bach as a forerunner of the technological age.
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