Kate Chisholm

Radio is the best way to mug up on the classics

Plus: is Radio 3’s Private Passions dumbing down to be more accessible? And why has The Archers become so absurdly false?

Mikhail Bulgakov. Photo: Getty 
issue 21 March 2015

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