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23/09/2007

Michael Berkeley's guest is the satirist, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, whose musical choices include works by Scarlatti, Rameau, Grainger and Barber.

Michael Berkeley's guest is the satirist, cartoonist and jazz musician Barry Fantoni, who has been on the editorial staff of Private Eye magazine since 1963, when his first cartoon was published there.

He has worked with John Wells, Peter Cook, Richard Ingrams and Ian Hislop as well as collaborating on such classics as Sylvie Krin's Love in the Saddle and Born to be Queen. He is now Professor of Communications and Media Studies at the University of Salerno.

His musical passions range from Baroque keyboard music by Scarlatti and Rameau, to Percy Grainger's Shallow Brown, Barber's evocative Knoxville: Summer of 1915, and his friend Spike Milligan reciting a surreal auction catalogue over an orchestral background by George Martin.

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