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Coal Mines—Cornerstones

3/5 Writer Paul Evans traces a family line back through Shropshire's seams of coal.

2/5 Poet Helen Mort reflects on the Peak District's Stanage Edge, famed for its millstone grit

1/5 Linda Cracknell reflects on the appeal of the quartz on Ben Lawers, her local Munro.

5/5 Journalist Bethany Bell on living in Modling, a town near Vienna where Schoenberg lived.

4/5 Tom McKinney on his 'first contact' with the music of Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra.

3/5 Gillian Moore talks about Alban Berg's relationships with the women in his life.

2/5 Stephen Johnson discusses Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2.

1/5 Sarah Walker on learning and playing Schoenberg's Suite for Piano, Op 25, for her MA.

5/5 The resonance of the Feast of the Holy Innocents for Christians in the Middle East.

4/5 Theologian Robert Beckford reflects on the magi as a symbol of cultural inclusion.