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Private Passions - 06/01/2008

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Michael Berkeley talks to the controversial playwright Mark Ravenhill, whose musical choices have a strongly political slant and reveal a passion for opera. They range from Offenbach's satirical comedy Orpheus in the Underworld, to Beethoven's Fidelio, Verdi's Rigoletto, John Adams's Nixon in China and Britten's Peter Grimes.