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Britten 100 Episodes

  1. Singing for Britten

    John Bridcut explores Britten's creative relationship with amateur singers.

  2. Murray Perahia interview

    Murray Perahia (who was coached by Britten himself) talks to Suzy Klein in a wide...

  3. Michael Berkeley interview

    Suzy Klein interviews Britten's godson on In Tune.

  4. Marion Thorpe interview

    Marion Thorpe was a close friend of Britten's for more than 30 years until his death...

  5. Britten’s People

    Benjamin Britten’s legacy to the people who knew him, lived alongside him and to the...

  6. Britten's Suffolk: The Sea

    Louise Fryer boards an historic fishing boat known to Britten as a child

  7. Britten's Suffolk: Snape Maltings

    Snape Maltings – Louise Fryer wanders around Britten’s music centre amongst the reeds

  8. Britten's Suffolk: Red House

    Louise Fryer views the Aldeburgh house that Britten and Pears called

  9. Britten's Suffolk: Churches

    Louise Fryer visits important churches to Britten in Aldeburgh, Blythburgh and Oxford

  10. Britten's Suffolk: Childhood Places

    Louise Fryer visits Lowestoft and Gresham’s School

  11. Britten's Suffolk: Aldeburgh

    Louise Fryer walks around Britten’s Aldeburgh

  12. Britten at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½: Britten's Sports

    Britten’s Sports – Lethal tennis playing, and skinny dipping in the Red House pool...

  13. Britten at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½: Britten's Pets

    The dachshunds loved by Britten and Pears, and Red House resident Johnnie the Parrot

  14. Britten at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½: Britten's Games

    Games with the Rostropoviches, and a controversial version of Happy Families

  15. Britten at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½: Britten's Food

    Mrs Hudson’s Sunday roasts, and Britten’s liking for a pre-concert Brandy

  16. Britten at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½: Britten's Clothes

    Britten’s understated elegance, and Willie Winkie nightgowns

  17. Britten at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½: Britten's Cars

    A passion for big cars, and memories of a road race from Aldeburgh to Snape