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FRIDAY 20 JUNE
Presented by John Wilson
JOHN ADAMS
Composer John Adams on how, with new works about September the 11th and the Nativity, he's still tackling musical big issues.
El Nino is being performed at the Barbican next week - The Transmigration of Souls will be performed at the Proms later in the summer and broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3. The free Proms Family concert at the Brixton Academy takes place next Friday.
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LEE MILLER
Today Sir David Hare erected an English Heritage Blue Plaque to jointly honour Lee Miller, the critically acclaimed American photographer & former surrealist muse to Man Ray, and Roland Penrose, the surrealist artist. Sir David spoke to John Wilson about something else he's working on - a screenplay, with Nicole Kidman in mind to play Lee Miller's extraordinary life.
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WELLCOME MEDICAL MYSTERIES
Next week the Wellcome Trust and the British Museum open an exhibition devoted to a collection by Henry Wellcome, the man who invented the pharmaceutical pill - patented the word 'tablet' and made a fortune selling them. By the time of his death he had amassed nearly a million medical & artistic & scientific artefacts.
To celebrate this eccentric collection Profile Books has commissioned 6 contemporary authors to write pieces inspired by it.
Medicine Man - the forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome" is at the British Museum from June 26
"The Phantom Museum" is published by Profile Books.
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MISSING MUSIC
One of the Holy Grail's of lost classics is On The Beach by Singer-Songwriter Neil Young, which has now been found after thirty years. Music writer David Hepworth tells us why this is cause for celebration and what other music magic is out there missing.
On the Beach by Neil Young is released on the Warners label.
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