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Radio 3,01 Jun 2016,15 mins

SeriesThe Art of Storytelling

The Art of Storytelling: Clemency Burton Hill

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In this series of The Essay, recorded earlier this week in front of an audience at Hay Festival, five writers explore The Art of Storytelling. The writers include novelist Jon Gower, linguist Professor David Crystal, artist and memoirist Edmund de Waal and Shakespeare scholar Professor Emma Smith. Today broadcaster Clemency Burton-Hill considers the relationship between storytelling and music. Part of Radio 3's week-long residency at Hay Festival, with programmes In Tune, Lunchtime Concert, Free Thinking and The Verb all broadcasting from the Festival.

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