Summary: Part A: It's the blessing and the curse of the talented — the status quo is never enough. Violinist, teacher and conductor Joshua Bell is no exception. After reaching such career heights as conducting at Tanglewood and being named music director at London's revered Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Bell is planning some seriously ambitious collaborative projects, including recording the Beethoven cycle — all nine symphonies. Part B: Pamela Werner, a 20-year-old Englishwoman, met a grisly fate in 1937 Peking. Her widowed father spent the rest of his life searching for answers, with no luck. Decades later, Shanghai resident and correspondent Paul French became fascinated with the story. The result is his new book, Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. In this installment of Prime Time Radio, Paul French discusses how Peking's upper and lower class, may have played a key role in Pamela Werner's unsolved murder
