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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jude Rogers

The week in audio: Facing the Music; Tara and George: Last Rights; Why Is Amy in the Bath? and more – review

The composer Joseph Haydn.
‘Powerful, symphonic storytelling’: Haydn proves a tearjerker in Radio 3’s Facing the Music. Photograph: GL Archive/Alamy

Facing the Music Radio 3/BBC Sounds
Tara and George: Last Rights Radio 4/BBC Sounds)
Why Is Amy in the Bath? Grab Bag Collab & Because It’s True Productions
Between the Ears: A Symphony of Cicadas Radio 3/BBC Sounds

“It’s almost midnight,” purrs Dominic West, all honey and velvet, straight after we hear the famously doomy, four-note opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The wild-eyed composer is in a cart, West tells us energetically, his latest piano sonata getting ruined by the rain, after throwing some coins at the driver and growling his preferred destination. West relishes every syllable of it: “Vi-ennnn-a!”

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