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JM Coetzee - Life & Times of Michael K

J M Coetzee's novel, German conductor Klaus Tennstedt, and RSC director Bill Alexander

Programme includes: South African author JM Coetzee on his Booker Prize nominated novel Life & Times of Michael K, plus review: conductor Klaus Tennstedt on taking charge of the London Philharmonic: Royal Shakespeare Company director Bill Alexander on Ben Jonson's comedy Volpone (Italian for 'sly fox'), plus excerpt (Miles Anderson and John Cater) and review. Presented by Humphrey Carpenter.

Note: Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K went on to win the 1983 Booker Prize.

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