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Julia Blackburn on Private Passions with Michael Berkeley 13th November 2022
The writer Julia Blackburn talks to Michael Berkeley about how music helped her through her traumatic childhood and about the joy of late-flowering love.
Julia Blackburn is the author of novels, poetry, plays and books about historical figures including Napoleon, Billie Holiday, Goya, and the Norfolk artist John Craske, as well as books about grief, her love of animals, and the natural world. She’s also published memoirs, including an astonishing book about her childhood, The Three of Us.
Julia shares her love of Beethoven, Pergolesi, English folk song, music from central Africa, and the songs of Billie Holiday, which helped her through her a childhood marked by chaos and neglect.
And she tells Michael Berkeley about the happiness she has found in bringing up her own children, and the delight she has found in love later in life.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
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