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My favourite London song: Have your say

17 September

Stephen Fry, Norman Cook, Hilary Mantel and others pick their favourite London songs. Have they got it right? What would you add?

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Mover and shaker

By Michael Hodges - 10 September

Forget Russell Brand – the real rebel on Radio 2 is the man who championed skiffle.

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In for the kill

By Jude Rogers - 03 September

As five women set their sights on the Mercury Prize, Jude Rogers, one of the judges, celebrates their success

Classical

Mozart: the Complete Violin Concertos

By Rick Jones - 16 July

This recording for Nonesuch captures the restlessness of the young Mozart

Still turning world

By Frances Morgan - 28 August

The Long-Player Goodbye Travis Elborough Sceptre, 480pp, £14.99 Old Rare New: the Independent Record Shop Emma Pettit Black Dog Publishing, 144pp, £19.95

The colour of music

By Sholto Byrnes - 01 November

The dissonance and abstraction of 20th-century composers influenced a generation of visual artists

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World

The left hand’s final frontier

By Antonia Quirke - 23 July

Far-out jazz chat is all well and good, Keith, but tell us about the divorce

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The Tunisian vocalist Dhafer Youssef is one of the leaders of an exciting renaissance in Arabic music. A new generation of artists is engaging with both classical tradition and international audiences

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Jazz