In this episode, BBC Music Magazine’s editor Oliver Condy talks to the former Guardian editor and now principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Alan Rusbridger.While the editor of a national paper during the Arab Spring, Wikileaks controversies, the newspaper hacking scandal, riots in the UK and more, Alan Rusbridger found time to learn and perform Chopin’s Ballade No. 1, a feat he describes in his book Play It Again: An Amateur Against the Impossible.Recordings featured:Chopin: Ballade No. 1Murray Perahia (piano)Sony Classical Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the OrchestraNew York Philharmonic/Leonard BernsteinSony Classical Bach arr. Busoni: Nun komm, der Heiden HeilandAlfred Brendel (piano)Decca Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131Takacs QuartetDecca Schubert: Variations on an Original ThemeAndreas Staier & Alexander Melnikov (piano)Harmonia MundiHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices