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World Service,01 Sep 1981,28 mins

Reviving P. G. Wodehouse, the playwright

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Good Morning, Bill, one of comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse's 18 plays, is revived by the Bristol Old Vic company. First performances of Akhmatova: Requiem, British composer John Tavener's new setting of the Russian poet Anna Akmatova's work written for Stalin's victims. Exhibition of ecentric Victorian architect William Burges at the National Museum of Wales will travel to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Black literature is celebrated at Riverside Studios, London, by poets and by author C. L. R. James who at 80 talks about the pitfalls facing African writers and the black American women writers who are in the forefront of American literature. Presenter: Natalie Wheen.

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