Private Passions - 28/10/2007

Michael Berkeley talks to American writer Joyce Carol Oates, a distinguished contemporary novelist and professor at Princeton University. Her latest novel The Gravedigger's Daughter deals with some of her favourite themes - race, immigration and social mobility. Two pieces of music that feature in the book – Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata and a Faure cello sonata – are among her choices, which also include Claudio Arrau playing Chopin, Mozart's Requiem and Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust.