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Radio 4,23 Jul 2015,30 mins

Handel's Saul, Paul Murray, The Monkees, Life in squares

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Samira Ahmed talks to opera director Barrie Kosky about his Glyndebourne production of Handel's Saul. Irish writer Paul Murray talks about the follow-up to his hugely successful novel Skippy Dies. The Mark and The Void is a timely satire about the European financial crisis. Priya Parmar reviews the BBC's new drama series about the Bloomsbury group, Life in Squares. Plus Monkees fan Iain Lee, who has tracked down original mastertapes of Micky Dolenz's unreleased songs, and is now releasing them as a vinyl-only album.

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