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Come over here, Tom Stoppard

Radio 4's controller Gwyneth Williams has big plans for arts coverage, and is jealous of Radio 2

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

19 October 2013

9:00 AM

‘I was mad with jealousy,’ said Gwyneth Williams, the controller of BBC Radio 4. ‘I am mad with jealousy,’ she corrected herself, and I believed her. We were discussing Tom Stoppard’s Darkside, a radio play written to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon.

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