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The Land Where the Good Songs Go A Journey in Search of Forgotten Musicals

BBC Radio 3
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Six programmes in which Mark Steyn explores forgotten musicals.
4: America's Songwriter
Irving Berlin was America's most successful songwriter, equally at home in Hollywood, Tin Pan Alley and on the Broadway stage. Berlin's daughter Mary Ellin Barrett recalls the early show As Thousands Cheer, which gave birth to one of the master songsmith's biggest hits, along with songs from Miss Liberty (1949) and Mr President (1962).
A Cat's Whiskers/Rewind production
Repeated Friday at 12 midnight

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Mark Steyn
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Mary Ellin Barrett
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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