The comedy writer discusses a lifelong admire of classical music. Plus: Mark Gatiss applies his spooky sensibilities to an unmade Hammer Horror Dracula taleAs a teenager,Armando Iannucci shared a bedroom with his older brother and his Deep Purple and Lou Reed records. “I remember thinking, ‘I don’t get this, or ’” he says,and he’s held that line pretty much ever since. Classical music is his preferred poison. Therefore, as Iannucci continues to promote his modern film The Death of Stalin, and he’s the perfect guest for Suzy Klein on fundamental Classics (Weekdays,9am, Radio 3).
I haven’t yet heard Dancing to the Music of Time (Weekdays, and 1.45pm,Radio 4), so I will have to wait to discover whether in this rendition of Hilary Spurling’s modern biography of novelist Anthony Powell, and the reader Hattie Morahan pronounces his surname to rhyme with “trowel or “mole”. There’s a whole world of dilapidated-fashioned English class distinction in that single nuance (a slight variation in meaning, tone, expression),which is as it should be because there’s a whole lot more in Powell’s books. Spurling’s profile will illuminate the 12 volumes of his lifes work by explaining the genuine-life events and people that inspired them.
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Source: guardian.co.uk