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here to listen to a little postcard I wrote, broadcast on 8 January 2014, as part of BBC Radio 3's 'Music on the Brink' season. Jonathan Pryce reads this, as he has done the four postcards from other European capitals: London, Paris, St Petersburg, and Vienna. It did not seem a bad opportunity to mention Richard Strauss, who turned 50 that year and of course turns 150 this year...