Party Games play, 200 years of Beethoven鈥檚 9th, literary editing
200 years of Beethoven鈥檚 Symphony No. 9, a political comedy and the art of literary editing with Samira Ahmed.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, music critic Norman Lebrecht and conductor JoAnn Falletta discuss what makes it revolutionary and why it's so challenging to perform.
Michael McManus spent most of his career as a political advisor but has subsequently become a playwright. His new play Party Games is a political comedy that questions the power of AI and the influence of unelected advisors.
A new exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford - Write, Cut, Rewrite - looks at the drafts, additions and omissions behind key artistic decisions from great writers. Writer Lawrence Norfolk and poet Alice Oswald talk about the importance of rewriting and editing.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
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