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Radio

Day of inaction Noel Malcolm W hen a famous mediaeval historian gave his inaugural lecture as a professor at Cambridge, something strange happened. After about an hour, students......

Opera

The Metropolitan Mikado (Queen Elizabeth Hall) Jolly poor show Rodney Milnes W hen Oliver Knussen's second Sendak-based opera was premiered incom- plete on last autumn's......