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As part of the 91福利社 Music Get Playing scheme, leading writers and artists they talk about their little-known passions for playing an instrument

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    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

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    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

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