Alan Rusbridger | Journalist - a podcast by Immediate Media

In this episode, BBC Music Magazine’s editor Oliver Condy talks to the former Guardian editor and now principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Alan Rusbridger.
While the editor of a national paper during the Arab Spring, Wikileaks controversies, the newspaper hacking scandal, riots in the UK and more, Alan Rusbridger found time to learn and perform Chopin’s Ballade No. 1, a feat he describes in his book Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible.Recordings featured:
Chopin: Ballade No. 1Murray Perahia (piano)
Sony Classical Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
New York Philharmonic/Leonard BernsteinSony Classical 
Bach arr. Busoni: Nun komm, der Heiden HeilandAlfred Brendel (piano)
DeccaBeethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
Takacs QuartetDecca 
Schubert: Variations on an Original ThemeAndreas Staier&Alexander Melnikov (piano)
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