Somerset is the first proper country county you come to in the West, which isn't dependent on London and isn't full of commuters. Somerset is full of the most fantastically interesting people.

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• Charles Hazlewood:

  I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this

• Charles Hazlewood:

  All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too

• Charles Hazlewood:

  People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their in

• Charles Hazlewood:

  The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an ide

• Charles Hazlewood:

  Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I most definitely would not buy the 'Daily Mail,' which pours a kind of livid torpor into the eyeli

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly News

• Charles Hazlewood:

  The rest of my family are obsessed by 'The X Factor:' I'm intrigued by it, although its musical val

• Charles Hazlewood:

  I'm a bit of a Luddite, really: I don't use email much, as I started drowning in it. So I said 'scr