Britten 100. Highlights from Radio 3’s Britten centenary weekend in Aldeburgh with special features, interviews and on location reports recorded in Suffolk.
Britten 100. Highlights from Radio 3’s Britten centenary weekend in Aldeburgh with special features, interviews and on location reports recorded in Suffolk.
Games with the Rostropoviches, and a controversial version of Happy Families
Britten’s understated elegance, and Willie Winkie nightgowns
Mrs Hudson’s Sunday roasts, and Britten’s liking for a pre-concert Brandy
Louise Fryer walks around Britten’s Aldeburgh
A passion for big cars, and memories of a road race from Aldeburgh to Snape
Louise Fryer visits important churches to Britten in Aldeburgh, Blythburgh and Oxford
Murray Perahia (who was coached by Britten himself) talks to Suzy Klein in a wide ranging interview.
John Bridcut explores Britten's creative relationship with amateur singers.
Louise Fryer visits Lowestoft and Gresham’s School
The dachshunds loved by Britten and Pears, and Red House resident Johnnie the Parrot
Louise Fryer boards an historic fishing boat known to Britten as a child
Louise Fryer views the Aldeburgh house that Britten and Pears called
Marion Thorpe was a close friend of Britten's for more than 30 years until his death in 1976. Interviewed here by Tom Service.
Snape Maltings – Louise Fryer wanders around Britten’s music centre amongst the reeds
Britten’s Sports – Lethal tennis playing, and skinny dipping in the Red House swimming pool
Benjamin Britten’s legacy to the people who knew him, lived alongside him and to the county that inspired him.
Suzy Klein interviews Britten's godson on In Tune.