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	Podcast:		Private Passions
	Episode:		Tim Birkhead
	Category:		Music
	Duration:		00:41:28
	Publish Date:		2022-04-17 12:00:00
	Description:		For Easter Day, Private Passions celebrates Spring and the music of birdsong with one of the world’s leading experts on birds, Professor Tim Birkhead. An award-winning scientist, author and university lecturer, Tim Birkhead is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the University of Sheffield, and the author of many books that communicate his life-long passion, including “What it’s like to be a bird” and most recently “Birds and Us”, a 12,000-year history of our relationship with birds, from cave art to conservation. His choices include music that Mozart taught to a starling, and the old Catalan “Song of the Birds”, played by Pablo Casals. There will also be the music of birdsong itself, from the Dawn Chorus to the song of the bullfinch, which Tim Birkhead regards as the ultimate songbird. The programme includes the famous 1924 recording of Beatrice Harrison playing her cello to a nightingale with the nightingale answering back. Or so the story goes… Tim Birkhead explores the true story of the recording and considers the enduring impact of Beatrice’s duet. Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
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