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. 1 Murray Perahia (piano) Sony Classical  Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein Sony Classical  Bach arr. Busoni: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland Alfred Brendel (piano) Decca Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 Takacs Quartet Decca  Schubert: Variations on an Original Theme Andreas Staier & Alexander Melnikov (piano) Harmonia Mundi   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.