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everyone’s cup of tea, I grant you, but former City grandee Anthony Bolton has composed an opera about the death of Alexander Litvinenko — the former Russian spy poisoned with polonium over a cuppa in Mayfair in 2006. the performance will take place at Grange Park opera in the grounds of West Horsley Place, the Surrey house which former University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne inherited from his aunt. Starter for ten: is it too soon to sing about such murky events?