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Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
Marin Alsop on breaking the barriers of playing classical music in contemporary society.
  1. Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
    02:40
    Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
  2. Reading
    04:11
    Reading
  3. Childhood
    05:49
    Childhood
  4. Writing Books for her Daughter
    04:53
    Writing Books for her Daughter
  5. Scarlet Umbrella
    04:17
    Scarlet Umbrella
  6. The Characters
    04:10
    The Characters
  7. Playing Instruments
    03:50
    Playing Instruments
  8. Q&A
    03:47
    Q&A
  9. Keeping it together onstage
    00:46
    Keeping it together onstage
  10. The difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh festivals
    00:28
    The difference between Glasgow and Edinburgh festivals
  11. Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
    03:15
    Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'
  12. Alan Cumming on flying to America - for the first time - with Ruby Wax
    02:34
    Alan Cumming on flying to America - for the first time - with Ruby Wax
  13. Erica Jong on sex and ageing
    04:08
    Erica Jong on sex and ageing
  14. Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
    02:49
    Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
  15. Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy
    04:12
    Alexei Sayle on life and 'inventing' British comedy
  16. Michelle Fisher: Picture the vast unknown
    02:59
    Michelle Fisher: Picture the vast unknown
  17. Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
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    Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia
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