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Beethoven beaten

ike many of your readers, I suspect, I was inspired by the BBC Sports Relief’s recent ‘Beat Beethoven’ run to have a go myself. In my mid-fifties I may be, but there’s plenty of life left in these legs of mine (if, admittedly, a few too many inches around the girth as well). I couldn’t help but notice that on the day the BBC Philharmonic took the music at quite a lick – the conductor must have had a bit of

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