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FRIDAY NIGHT
* England football manager Sven Goran Eriksson has revealed a hitherto hidden passion for classical music in a new three CD compilation by Naxos. Sharply marketed as a "personal selection of inspirational music", the set includes a history of the World Cup written by Brian Glanville and the England manager's thoughts on living, football and (rather more briefly) music.
The first CD contains British music including Purcell, Elgar and Walton; the second continental Europeans, among them Verdi, Wagner and Mussorgsky and the third Swedish music with the odd Norwegian such as Grieg thrown in. Music critic Robert Cowen dissects the selection.
The three CD Sven-Goran Eriksson Classical Collection is available on
the Naxos label.
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* In their first production away from their unloved Barbican home, the RSC has chosen Camden's Roundhouse to stage a new version of The Winter's Tale.
But taking the Bard to the epicentre of swinging 60s London is not the only controversial move. Director Matthew Warchus has Americanised the play, drawing as much on the Brothers Cohen as on Stratford's favourite son. He tells us why.
The Winter's Tale runs at the Roundhouse, London until June 19. It transfers to Stratford from 31 July to 2 November.
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* Business investment in the arts is on the decline again. At least according to a survey published by Art & Business, a lobby group. We ask the group's director, Colin Tweedy, to tell us why.
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* In his time the potter turned novelist William de Morgan was more famous than Dickens. A friend of Burne-Jones and William Morris, his designs were extremely popular among the Victorian middle-classes but soon fell out of favour in the 20th century.
A new museum in south London aims to help us rediscover the work of this lost designer.
The de Morgan Centre in Wandsworth, London is open every day except Thursday and Sunday.
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* The poet John Burnside, who lives in Fife, is concerned with connecting humanity to the rest of the living world, to landscape, animals and birds, to things that grow.
With the publication of his latest book, The Light Trap, he explains his long-term interest in ecology.
The Light Trap is published by Jonathan Cape next week.
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On Monday's programme
The verdict on the lavish new staging of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, novelist Nigel Williams, 1960s happenings revisited, and why Alexandre Dumas is still one of Hollywood's favourite writers.
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