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A Man Worth Knowing

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A portrait of James Henry Leigh Hunt by MELISSA BAKEWELL
'Hunt is an extraordinary character, and not exactly of the present age. He reminds me more of the Pym and Hampden times-much talent, great independence of spirit....a man worth knowing.' (LORD BYRON) Music arranged and conducted by MICHAEL HURD INGRID CULLIFORD (flute) and MARTYN PARRY (piano) Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown:
Melissa Bakewell
Leigh Hunt:
David Collings
Charles Dickens:
Seàn Barrett
Lord Byron:
Trevor Nichols
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
John Webb
John Keats:
Simon Hewitt
John Forster:
Brian Smith
Charles MacReady:
William Eedle
Manchester Examiner:
David Garth
Blackwood's Magazine:
Michael McClain
John Murray:
David Sinclair
Samuel Coates:
Graham Blockey
Mrs Hunt:
Tessa Worsley
Mary Shelley:
Melinda Walker
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Anne Jameson
Source: Radio Times

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