28/10/2007
Michael Berkeley talks to American writer Joyce Carol Oates. Her choices include Claudio Arrau playing Chopin, Mozart's Requiem and Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust.
Michael Berkeley talks to American writer Joyce Carol Oates, a distinguished contemporary novelist and professor at Princeton University. Her latest novel The Gravedigger's Daughter deals with some of her favourite themes - race, immigration and social mobility.
Two pieces of music that feature in the book 鈥� Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata and a Faure cello sonata 鈥� are among her choices, which also include Claudio Arrau playing Chopin, Mozart's Requiem and Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust.
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