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10am
Rob's guest this week is the comedian, writer and actor, Chris Addison. Chris is well known for appearances in鈥�'The Thick of It', 'Mock the Week', 'Have I Got News for You'鈥痑nd鈥�'Live at the Apollo',鈥痑s well as producing and directing the American TV series '鈥疺eep'.鈥疕e also co-wrote and starred in the political satire鈥�'The Department'鈥痜or 大象传媒 Radio 4. Chris's passion for classical music started at a young age, and with his school choir he made recordings with the Hall茅 Orchestra. More recently, he appeared in a production of Chabrier's opera 'L'脡toile' at the Royal Opera House. As well as discussing his comedy and acting work, Chris shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week by composers including Chabrier, Britten and M谩rquez.

10.30am
Music on Location: Coventry Cathedral
Rob explores music by Benjamin Britten connected with this famous landmark. Only a shell of the 14th-century Coventry Cathedral remained after a series of devastating bombing raids on the city in November 1940, but a new cathedral arose from its ashes, completed in 1962. Benjamin Britten was commissioned to mark its re-consecration, for which he created his War Requiem, a setting of the traditional Latin requiem text, but interspersed with poetry written during WW1 by Wilfred Owen.

11am
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. Abbado is considered one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century and remains one of the few chosen to be Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. After studying in his native Milan, and later Vienna, he won the Koussevitzky Conducting Competition. He also won the Dimitri Mitropoulos Prize which allowed him to assist Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic. He's held major posts at La Scala, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic. After Berlin he founded a number of orchestras: the European Union Youth, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart, which he led until his death in 2014. Abbado will be long remembered for his conducting, but also for his enterprise and his championing of contemporary music. From a vast discography, Rob has chosen to feature Abbado in Beethoven with the Berlin Philharmonic, Bach and Mozart with Orchestra Mozart, Tchaikovsky with the New Philharmonia, and Prokofiev with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Mozart
Symphony No.41 in C major, K.551 'Jupiter'
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado (conductor).