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Michael Grade talks about the Hunter Davies new book, The Grades, which follows the fortunes of his father and uncles – Russian emigres called Winogradsky who became the theatrical agents and impresarios Leslie Grade, Bernard Delfont and Lew Grade. A series of Russian romantic music at the Wigmore Hall, London, reviewed. Alan Ayckbourn, Britain's "most popular, productive and successful living playwright", talks about working as a director in Scarborough, Yorkshire, and how writing is "loathesome – you sit in a room on your own" and he only does it for a month a year.

Presenter: Gillian Reynolds.