Proms interval talk: George Eliot in Germany

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"Novelist Patricia Duncker, discusses George Eliot, her travels in Germany in the 19th century when she spent 8 months in the country and the music she refers to in her novels and diaries. Along side her on stage is Clare Walker-Gore of Trinity College, Cambridge, one of the academics selected last year by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Council to be a New Generation Thinker. The host is Anne McElvoy, who is a regular presenter of BBC Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme Free Thinking and a journalist who writes for the London Evening Standard and the Economist."