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The Composer as Entertainer

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Steve Race casts an interested eye in the direction of composers who emerge - sometimes surprisingly - also as entertainers who write their own material. Including: Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill, Noel Coward, George Gershwin, Sammy Cahn, Mel Torme, Harry Lauder, Rachmaninov, Peggy Lee, Simon and Garfunkel, Tommy Steele, Lennon and McCartney, and Lynsey de Paul

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Presenter:
Steve Race
Producer:
Trafford Whitelock
Source: Radio Times

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