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A FASCINATING insight into the mind of Bank of England Governor Mervyn King comes from a radio programme due to be aired in New York on Sunday. On the show, Mad About Music, on WNYC (people here can log on to wnyc.org in the early hours of Monday morning), the Governor chooses his favourite pieces of music and chats with the host, Gilbert Kaplan (the founder of Institutional Investor magazine, hence King's participation).
Apart from his music - Beethoven, Verdi, Bruckner and Mozart, and Piaf's Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien - King opens up about himself and his work. The monetary policy committee, he describes as "a Beethoven string quartet because it combines that element of intellectual depth and seriousness".See the full content of this document
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