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15/04/2013

Matthew Sweet with a review of The Sunken Garden a new opera collaboration with libretto by best-selling author David Mitchell and score by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa.

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45 minutes

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Mon 15 Apr 2013 22:00

Chapters

  • Desertion

    Charles Glass and Ben Griffin discuss desertion in the armed forces.

    Duration: 21:34

  • Sunken Garden

    Andrew Dickson reviews the opera.

    Duration: 06:11

  • Willa Cather

    Hermione Lee discusses the writer's newly published private letters.

    Duration: 06:54

  • Pier Paolo Pasolini

    Sandra Hebron and Mary Wild discuss the late film director and his film Theorem.

    Duration: 10:00

Charles Glass

Charles Glass
Deserter: the last untold story of the Second World WarΒ by Charles Glass is published by HarperPress.

Ben Griffin

Ben Griffin is a former SAS soldier and founder of .

Sunken Garden

Sunken Garden

is a collaboration between theΒ English National Opera and Barbican. It is on at Barbican, London currently booking until Saturday 20th April.

Photograph (c) Mike Hoban.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

is on at venues across London,Β Dundee, Edinburgh, and Penzance from 12th April.

Photograph courtesy of BFI.

Willa Cather

Willa Cather

The Selected Letters of Willa Cather is published by Knopf Publishing Group.

Photograph Credit: Philip L and Helen Cather Southwick Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries.

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  • Mon 15 Apr 2013 22:00

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