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Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
Marin Alsop on breaking the barriers of playing classical music in contemporary society.
  1. Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
    02:40
    Marin Alsop: 'The need to pigeonhole music is limiting'
  2. Squashing Words
    05:58
    Squashing Words
  3. Books I’ve Written
    02:35
    Books I’ve Written
  4. Making a Leopard Monster
    04:35
    Making a Leopard Monster
  5. Superpowers
    08:09
    Superpowers
  6. Steve’s Monsters
    02:19
    Steve’s Monsters
  7. Making a Monster
    08:35
    Making a Monster
  8. Alien Stink Song
    05:04
    Alien Stink Song
  9. Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
    02:57
    Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust
  10. Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
    03:10
    Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms
  11. Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years
    05:05
    Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years
  12. Jessica Fostekew's Fringe picks
    02:02
    Jessica Fostekew's Fringe picks
  13. The school bus rap
    01:42
    The school bus rap
  14. "Thespians who have children"
    00:40
    "Thespians who have children"
  15. Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
    02:49
    Tim Burgess: What happened when I asked Lou Reed for an autograph
  16. Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin
    02:34
    Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin
  17. Pushing onto trains
    00:38
    Pushing onto trains
  18. Trying Weight Watchers
    00:59
    Trying Weight Watchers
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