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TODAY’S RADIO
OTI MABUSE’S DANCING LEGENDS
11.30AM, RADIO 4 ★★★★
As viewers will know, the former Strictly star Vincent Simone is a superb dancer, and the tangos he did with his professional partner, Flavia Cacace, were dazzling in their technique and defied the laws of gravity. Vincent joins
Oti Mabuse to talk about Maria Nieves, the dancer who, along with Juan Carlos Copes, brought the once banned and despised tango off the streets of Buenos Aires and on to the world stage.
THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★
The opera Fierrabras, about a 12th-century knight, sank into obscurity because of its terrible libretto, dragging Schubert’s music down with it. Performances of this
work are rare and best avoided – but Schubert’s score is an entirely different matter. John Suchet includes the overture for the opera here, giving us a chance to hear a fine piece by a great composer.
COSTING THE EARTH 9PM, RADIO 4
★★★★ Snow leopards are solitary creatures that live high in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, where their unusual paws allow them to glide like ghosts across the snow. Antonia Bolingbrokekent goes on the trail of these mysterious, endangered big cats.
FREE THINKING 10PM, RADIO 3
★★★★
Kevin Rudd, a former Prime Minister of Australia, has a background in diplomacy; he is also a scholar of Chinese history, and is fluent in Mandarin. He is – not without reason – deeply worried about relations between China and America, and is anxious about a possible catastrophic conflict between the two powers. Kevin joins
Rana Mitter this evening to talk about his new book on the subject, The Avoidable War. SJ