"From the Neo-Bauhaus Modernism of my birth town, Bat'a Zlín, to the so-called 'Brutalism' of the Barbican, I have always lived comfortably with Modernism. After all, it is the architecture of my life and times."

Sir John Tusa is a writer, TV journalist and arts administrator.

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Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every European power. Over the next forty years she became a fierce leader and opponent, as well as a devoted wife and mother to sixteen children.

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