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Apr 2015
27m 45s

Kulvinder Ghir on Zoran Music

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Comedian and actor Kulvinder Ghir nominates the life of the artist Zoran Music. Matthew Parris finds out about Music who sketched corpses during and after he survived the horrors of being held at Dachau- a concentration camp in 1944.

They are also joined by art critic, curator Michael Peppiatt who was a friend and an admirer of Zoran Music in this week's Great Life.

Producer: Perminder Khatkar.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

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