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Jun 2021
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Mozart the Happy Harlequin and Lost Brit...

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This week, Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig are joined by Paul Griffiths to discuss the beauty and grace of Mozart, the untortured genius; David Edgerton talks us through the decline and fall of British coal mining and its relationship with the Labour Party; plus, new discoveries about Locke and Leviathan, obituary codes and the Buddha's wife


'La Clemenza di Tito' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'Mozart in Prague' by Daniel E. Freeman

'Mozart: The reign of love' by Jan Swafford

'The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the end of industrial Britain' by Huw Beynon and Ray Hudson

'Yasodhara and the Buddha' by Vanessa R. Sasson


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Producer: Ben Mitchell


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