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1 2.00 Composer of the Week:
Beethoven — The Symphonies
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Donald Macleod is joined by the conductor
John Eliot Gardiner to explore the composer’s
nine symphonies, starting by discussing
Beethoven’s beginnings with the form.
Beethoven (Symphony No 1 in C, Op 21 —
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Symphony No 1 in C, Op 21 — III. Menuet
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2. 00 Afternoon Concert
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Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s recent
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(Concerto for double string orchestra);
Lawes, arr. Manze (Fantasy in G
minor-major); Mozart (Symphony No 39 in
E flat, K 543); Weber (Invitation to the
Dancee — orch. Berlioz); Mussorgsky, arr.
Shostakovich (Songs and Dances of Deathhh);
Ruth Gipps (Sinfonietta, Op73, for winds &
percussion); Jane Grey (Fantasy, Op 15, for
viola & strings); and Dorothy Howell
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4 .30 Early Music Now
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Beethoven (Symphony No 7 in A, Op 92;
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1 0.45 The Essay:
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American settling here nearly 50 years ago,
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1 1. 00 The Untold
A Black Lives Matter protest in the
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1 .45 Mayday
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Wimsey:
Whose Body?
Radio 4 Extra, 1.30pm/8.30pmFrom 1973 comes this radio
adaptation of the first novel
in Dorothy L Sayers’s Lord
Peter Wimsey series. In
Whose Body?, published
in 1923, the upper-class
sleuth investigates after
a naked body is found in a
bathtub, wearing only
a pince-nez. But who is
he? The police are
confused — is he the
missing financier Sir
Reuben Levy, or isn’t he?
Enter our titled amateur
detective, played so
memorably by Ian
Carmichael, above, to sniff
out the truth. The five-part
drama also features Patricia
Routledge as the Dowager
Duchess and Peter Jones
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said last week that the new series
of The Crown is the best yet,
but I’m sure you’ll agree that the
opener was not a five-star episode.
Mainly because the two new
crowd-pullers, Margaret Thatcher
and Princess Diana, initially jarred.
Gillian Anderson’s Thatcher was too
parodically gurning and deep-voiced;
our first glimpse of Emma Corrin’s
young Diana, dressed in foliage and
pretending to hide behind plants to
engineer a meeting with Prince
Charles, was slapstick and irritating.It was the old heavyweights, such
as Josh O’Connor as Charles and
Tobias Menzies as Prince Philip, who
reminded us of this brand’s quality.
The IRA murder of Lord Mountbatten
and three others on his boat, however,
was expertly done in its horror
(spoilers ahead). His funeral was
played to a voiceover of an IRA
activist calling him “the ultimate
symbol of imperialist oppression”.
Yet the series should be judged
as a whole and Anderson and Corrin
settled down and improved hugely to
help to make this outstanding, moreish
television. Corrin particularly is a tour
de force as Diana, perfecting her coy
smiles and side-eye, her frailty and
canny manipulation. By episode two
Corrin was smashing it, having Diana
flirting artfully with Prince Philip
during a Balmoral visit in which she
auditioned to be Princess of Wales and
scored a “perfect ten” from the royals.
Later in Buckingham Palace there
was a toe-curling scene in which she
showed her lonely frustration via the
medium of dance. Let’s never speak of
it again. Olivia Colman still doesn’t
have Claire Foy’s precision as the
Queen, but in her testy relationship
with Thatcher and fury at Charles’s
“selfishness” for wanting a separation,
she is the best she has been.
Before some episodes we were
warned that we would see scenes of an
eating disorder, Diana’s bulimia. Whatabout a trigger warning before the
storyline of that poor stag at Balmoral,
which staggered about half-dead for
days after being shot and which the
royals mocked, sadistically imitating
its agonised bellowing? Hideous.
Philip eventually finished it orf,
assisted by Diana. It was stuffed and
mounted, a metaphor for what they
were doing to her, the trophy bride.
Peter Morgan is much more critical
of the royals this series, especially
Charles, whose contempt for Diana’s
“vulgarity” in hugging children with
HIV has O’Connor in blistering form.
Helena Bonham Carter, too, is on fire
as a monstrous Princess Margaret.
Perfect lockdown TV.
Steve McQueen devoted an hour
to the trial in Small Axe: Mangrove,
which in lesser hands would be
a risk. Yet I was riveted, not just by the
legal argument, with Darcus Howe
(Malachi Kirby) making mincemeat
of a police constable whose prejudice
some might have felt was almost
panto-evil, but also by the drama and
suspense. The long, unhurried silent
scene when the defendants awaited
the verdict was artfully agonising.
McQueen’s evocation of 1960s
London was mesmeric, the city still
steeped in prejudice, but with the
partly built Westway elevated dual
carriageway hinting at a new future. It
is not often the BBC News at Ten gets
Emma Corrin is a tour de force as Princess Diana in The Crown kicked out of its slot. Right decision.Diana as a stuffed and mounted trophy bride
DES WILLIE/NETFLIXCarol
Midgley
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