Wagners Ring Cycle: The Ultimate Box Set Binge
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Tom Service explores classical music\\u2019s ultimate binge-listening box set - Richard Wagner\\u2019s apocalyptic four-part 16-hour marathon music drama, The Ring.
Cram packed with heroes, heroines, gods and goddesses, it took 25 years to write and has inspired everyone from JRR Tolkien to Francis Ford Coppola and Bugs Bunny.
Selfishness, deception, hypocrisy, greed, destruction; like all good box sets they\\u2019re all in there, but what\\u2019s The Ring really about? And what can we, and perhaps today\\u2019s world leaders, learn from it?
Tom has half an hour to find out.
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