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In later life, the novelist Anthony Burgess said he wished people would think of him as "a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side".
As well as writing about music - most famously in A Clockwork Orange and his non-fiction book This Man and Music - there are over 250 works composed over a fifty year span, from preludes and fugues for keyboard via a 'flatulent fanfare' for four tubas (dedicated to an eminent - and dismissive - music critic) to orchestral works.

This episode of Afterwords, explores Burgess' musical ambitions and abiities and reveals new insight into his antagonistic relationship with the musical establishment.
With Belgian pianist Stephane Ginsburgh, American musicologist Christine Lee Gengaro, the British academic Christopher Wintle and Professor Andrew Biswell of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester.

Produced by Alan Hall with Phoebe McIndoe.
A Falling Tree production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Three.