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	Podcast:		Private Passions
	Episode:		Katharine Whitehorn
	Category:		Music
	Duration:		00:24:05
	Publish Date:		2016-02-21 07:00:00
	Description:		Michael Berkeley talks to veteran journalist Katharine Whitehorn about the music she's loved all her life. She's often quoted as saying: 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.' Katharine explains that she had quite a few false starts along the way - running away from school, failing as an architecture student, dabbling in modelling - until she found her true vocation of journalism and began a career that has spanned Picture Post, the Observer and Saga Magazine. She's also known to millions as the author of Cooking in a Bedsitter, first published in 1961 and still the bible of student cookery. Her music choices include Finlandia, invoking memories of another - happy - false start; a piece of Chopin played by her father; Mozart and Beethoven symphonies; and one of the few songs she and her much-loved husband Gavin Lyall both enjoyed. Producer: Jane Greenwood A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3.
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