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Restoration by Edward Bond – did the Butler do it?

Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play

Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond talks about his latest musical play, Restoration, set in a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege –18th-Century England. Yehudi Menuhin discusses The Music of Man, his TV series about the evolution of music: "An African or Indian drummer is a person of incredible intellectual power, because he's a mathematician." Plus, are children giving up reading or is that just scaremongering?

Presented by Mike Phillips.

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30 minutes

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project