Michael Gove, The Full English, Forbidden Music

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Tom Service talks to Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, about his plans and policy for music education and where he believes music sits in the national curriculum. He also visits Sheffield to talk to musicians working with a new digital archive of English folk music called The Full English - which makes twelve collections available online to the public for the first time and gets a taster of pieces derived from the archive performed by Martin Simpson, Fay Hield, Nancy Kerr, Rob Harbron and Sam Sweeney. In his book "Forbidden Music" Michael Haas unravels the story of composers and musicians who were banned by the Nazis and the musical trends they established before being banned, murdered and exiled. Tom speaks to the author and assesses the book with the musicologists John Deathridge and David Nice.