
Monday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker, and her guest, the nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day an artist performing later today in the BBC Proms recommends three musical works, and on Essential Classics we'll play one of those pieces around 10am.
10.30am
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has also written a personal column in BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1986.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Verdi: String Quartet
Julliard Quartet
11.25
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Julia Fischer (violin)
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor).
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9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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9.30am
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9.57: Proms Artists Recommend - Daniel Barenboim
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10.30: Richard Mabey's Choices
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11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Broadcast
- Mon 22 Jul 2013 09:00