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  • 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.
    - Claire Tomalin
  • Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
    - Claire Tomalin
  • Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
    - Claire Tomalin
  • By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
    - Claire Tomalin
  • In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
    - Claire Tomalin