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As editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger’s life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves one time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he was able to make his annual escape to ‘piano camp’. Here, he set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, Chopin’s Ballade No.1.
In his energetic tour through 30,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology and leads us through the story of music as it really happened, so that each musical innovation strikes us with its original force.
This illustrated landmark book tells the absorbing story of Britain’s favourite radio programme in all its rich and intriguing detail through an exclusive selection of just 100 castaways.
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