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They would fish for swallows using hooks baited with flies "thus inventing the art of angling in the sky".By the end, so seductive a sound-montage had Macleod created that it was a wrench to leave that most lovely of palaces, those scented gardens where the burbling and plashing of cool water induces a dreamy, sun-soaked enjoyment of all that is most romantic and mysterious about Andalusia. No wonder we speak of castles in Spain as the epitome of the desirable but unattainable - especially when we are struggling on in the grip of a northern December.Armando Ianucci discussed his Private Passions (R3) with Michael Berkeley this week. He spoke of borrowing recordings of classical music from the Hillhead library as a child, to the disgusted incomprehension of his peers. He chose a good deal of 20th-century music - but then, as he remarked, pretty soon 20th-century music will seem very old hat.

He was modest and hesitant and much, much nicer than you'd imagine.Considering what a wonderfully witty writer he is, it was perhaps surprising that the only really funny piece he chose was the PDQ Bach madrigal parody (which is very funny). His heart was with the amazingly lyrical, elegiac Berg Adagio, written in memory of a child: in its moving simplicity, this was a revelation to me. In the silence after it finished, Michael Berkeley identified its appeal, in his usual, diffident way. "One does feel," he suggested, "that one is eavesdropping on something too private to bear." Very private, and very passionate.Armando Ianucci's choice of music:Tippett: "How can I cherish my man" and "Steal away", A Child of Our Time.John Adams: Third movement, Wild Night.Neilsen: First movement, Fifth Symphony.PDQ Bach: Madrigal, "My bonnie lass she smelleth".JS Bach: Adagio, Sonata No 1 in G minor.Berg: Adagio, Violin Concerto.THE GULF, HEARD ON AIRWas Blair right to back Clinton? Phone now to vote Your call will cost less than 10 pence.

Scott Chisholm(Talk)Unless you're going to kill hundreds of thousands of people, you're not going to destroy Saddam's "apparatus".George Galloway MP ( Lab)Today (R4)Don't listen to me Read Robert Fisk, the doyen of Middle East reporters. Every day he tells us the truth about Iraq in the Independent.George GallowayNicky Campbell (R5)The Kuwaitis are a very pleasant, reserved people. Privately, they want to see the back of Saddam one way or another. As for Ramadan, it's a moveable feast you know - it may not happen until next week.Don MackayLorraine Kelly (Talk)We're conscious of the religious significance of this event and we're sensitive to that. We should not necessarily believe whatever evidence is presented by the Iraqi regime.George RobertsonSecretary of State for DefenceNews (R4)It isn't a very cheerful conversation at all. It's actually terrifying.Lorraine Kelly (Talk)When you threaten a tyranny you strengthen the tyrant. To quote Camus: "The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants."JasonNicky Campbell (R5)Why does Tony Blair do everything Clinton tells him?Tony BennYesterday (R4)The safest place you could be in the case of chemical attack, is in bed with the covers over your head and the windows shut.Wendy Barnleyauthor of 'The Plague-Makers'Lorraine Kelly (Talk)You know, Lorraine, peace is always won at a price You tell me what else we could have done.

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