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Wilfred Frost. We hear about Ringo’s big break and John’s love of the German city of Hamburg, as well as the story of George Harrison’s first guitar – a cheap second-hand one that his parents bought him, which eventually sold at auction for $469,200.

MONDAY, 8.30PM, RADIO4

Israel’s ultraorthodox Jewish community is struggling to come to terms with high-profile sex abuse scandals. In the past year, two of its leading lights were accused of taking advantage of their status to sexually assault vulnerable people, but still received the backing of religious leaders. This led to an unprecedented backlash that has been described as a Metoo moment. The BBC’S Middle East correspondent, Yolande Knell, goes in search of the truth.

TUESDAY, 7.30PM, RADIO3

Gustav Mahler was within an hour of dying from a haemorrhage in 1901. He went to recuperate at his lakeside villa where, inspired by his neardeath experience, he wrote his sublime 5th Symphony. The work starts with a trumpet solo and ends with that wonderful evocation of a shimmering infinity made famous by Visconti’s film Death In Venice starring

Dirk Bogarde (left). The Philharmonia Orchestra open their season by taking you along Mahler’s route from darkness into light.

When lockdown kicked in, David Sedaris walked for miles through the deserted streets of New York, feeling a little uncomfortable that, in the unusually fresh air, he could smell his own breath. David, a humorous writer and worldrenowned storyteller, takes us back to those strange times, when he passed the time by cleaning his flat twice a day and brooding on why his kind offer to pay for an orthodontically challenged man to have his teeth straightened was rebuffed.

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