On the Third Hand

At The Telegraph, Gillian Reynolds isn't convinced Barenboim made either of those arguments at all.

"On that cold and gloomy Friday night I left the Cadogan Hall wondering several things: how long would the [radio program] producer have to wrestle with the material to make it into a programme; whether Barenboim had actually said anything new or remarkable; if the BBC realises how brilliantly Sue Lawley rescues sticky situations; why Radio 4 felt so confident of Barenboim's powers of argument that they let him deliver these lectures from notes, not a text."
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