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Book of the Week The Rest is Noise - Listening to the 20th Century Episodes

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  1. Episode 5

    5/5 John Cage, John Adams and the birth of political opera with Nixon in China.

  2. Episode 4

    4/5 The psychological realism of Peter Grimes and Britten's relationship with Peter Pears.

  3. Episode 3

    3/5 The Beatles and Stockhausen - and how he ended up on the cover of Sgt Pepper's.

  4. Episode 2

    2/5 Kurt Weill and the story of Mack the Knife and Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

  5. Episode 1

    1/5 The last of the old guard or the first of the new: Strauss, Mahler and Salome.