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Gyorgy Pauk
Broadcast | 30 May 2010
Violinist
Music | Béla Bartók - Door Six (from Bluebeard’s Castle)
Marcus du Sautoy
Broadcast | 07 Dec 2008
Mathematician
Music | Béla Bartók - Look my castle gleams and brightens (from Duke Bluebeard's Castle)
David King
Broadcast | 22 May 2005
Chief Scientific Adviser, Chemist
Music | Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - 2nd movement
Professor Géza Vermes
Broadcast | 04 Jun 2000
Writer on religious history
Music | Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Nina Cassian
Broadcast | 14 Feb 1999
Poet
Music | Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Andras Schiff
Broadcast | 07 Feb 1999
Classical pianist
Music | Béla Bartók - From the diary of a fly (from Mikrokosmos Book 6)
Viscount Rothermere
Broadcast | 14 Apr 1996
Newspaper proprietor
Music | Béla Bartók - Scherzo (Burlesque)
Anthony Storr
Broadcast | 31 Jan 1993
Psychiatrist, Writer
Music | Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 6
John Simpson
Broadcast | 19 May 1991
BBC journalist, Broadcaster
Music | Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances - No. 3
Lord Dacre of Glanton (Hugh Trevor-Roper)
Broadcast | 21 Aug 1988
Historian
Music | Béla Bartók - Concerto For Orchestra
Robert Carrier
Broadcast | 15 Nov 1987
Chef, Businessman, Restaurateur
Music | Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 2
Miklos Rozsa
Broadcast | 01 Dec 1984
Musician, Composer
Music | Béla Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra - 4th movement
Gyorgy Ligeti
Broadcast | 18 Dec 1982
Composer
Music | Béla Bartók - Banat (Regret) (from Two and Three Part Choruses)
Stephen Sondheim
Broadcast | 16 Aug 1980
Composer, Lyricist
Music | Béla Bartók - Concerto For Orchestra
Sir Robert Mayer
Broadcast | 02 Jun 1979
Patron of Music, Businessman, Philanthropist
Music | Béla Bartók - Concerto For Orchestra
Egon Ronay
Broadcast | 19 Feb 1977
Food and wine expert
Music | Béla Bartók - Evening in Transylvania (from Ten Easy Pieces)
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