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Article: A chameleon quality

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May 31, 1996
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Just before nine o'clock on Sunday mornings, a musician who's due to appear in one of the following week's programmes on Radio 3 is invited to give a brief preview, their Choice of Three, selected from everything on offer. Last Sunday, John Lill not only chose more than three programmes, but found time for a welcome side-swipe at the ghastly Radio Times - my adjective. Lill called it "ironically named" because it allotted to radio listings only 16 pages out of 136. Radio Times - or was it Classic FM? - came up with a scoop for Bank Holiday Monday: a programme in which Diana Ambache presented the story of Clara Schumann - "Sister of Robert and friend of Brahms". No wonder old Papa Wieck ...

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