Shirley Hughes
A chance to hear a programme recorded in 2017 with Michael Berkeley talking to the children's author Shirley Hughes, who died in February.
A chance to hear a programme recorded in 2017 with Michael Berkeley talking to the children's author Shirley Hughes, who died in February this year. On her ninetieth birthday, Shirley Hughes, the creator of many of our best-loved and most enduring children's books, talked to Michael Berkeley about her musical passions.
In a career spanning nearly 70 years, Shirley wrote as many books and illustrated nearly two hundred. She was the first winner of the Book Trust Lifetime Achievement Award, twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, and was awarded a CBE for services to literature. Her picture books have an enduring appeal with their sympathetic but unsentimental depiction of the small dramas and joys of family life.
Shirley Hughes chose music by Scriabin, Mozart, Beethoven and The Beatles - who reminded her of her roots in Liverpool and share her love of storytelling.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.
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Shirley Hughes on the problems of modern childhood
Duration: 01:33
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Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata no.3 in F sharp minor (1st mvt: Drammatico)
Performer: Dmitri Alexeev. -
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Jimmy McHugh
I Must Have that Man
Singer: Billie Holiday. -
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Franz Schubert
Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise)
Performer: Paul Lewis. Singer: Mark Padmore. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Voi che Sapete (Le Nozze di Figaro)
Orchestra: Orchestre de lβOpΓ©ra de Lyon. Conductor: Kazushi Ono. Singer: Joyce DiDonato. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.1 in C major (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Concerto No.1 in G major (2nd mvt: Adagio)
Performer: JeanβPierre Rampal. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Theodor Guschlbauer. -
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John Lennon
She's Leaving ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ
Composer: Paul McCartney. Ensemble: The Beatles.
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