DISCUSSION: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Classical Music and Politics, including contributions from Béla Hartmann and James Ross.
ASK ALICE: Weekly, from 2003 until 2016/17, Alice McVeigh took on the role of classical music's agony aunt to answer questions on a surprising variety of subjects.
Jussi Björling was born 5 February 1911 in Borlänge, Sweden. He studied opera in Stockholm as the basis of a celebrated career as an operatic tenor. He was heard at both Covent Garden and the Met in New York. He died in Sweden on 9 September 1960.