We’ve been given to understand that tonight’s Lebrecht Interview with the great violinist is the first programme-length conversation he has ever agreed to.
We talk about many things – his boyhood bout of polio, the crackpot Ed Sullivan Show on which he made his US debut, getting concerthalls to instal disability facilities, bringing back unfashionable composers.
Listen tonight at 20.45 on BBC Radio 3.
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