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Song of Pleasure and Protest

BBC One
on BBC One London

The Ceilidhe
This private get-together and sing-song was filmed in the village of Spiddal, Connemara, on the west coast of Ireland.

Lotte Lenya
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill wrote songs and plays of social protest like The City of Mahagonny and The Threepenny Opera. Lotte Lenya, the German actress and singer, sings some of the songs which made her famous in the twenties and thirties, and which the Nazis hated so much.

Introduced by Huw Wheldon.
(First shown on Monitor)

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Wheldon
Director (The Ceilidhe):
David Jones
Singer:
Lotte Lenya
Director (Lotte Lenya):
Ken Russell
Film Editor:
Allan Tyrer
Producer:
Humphrey Burton
Source: Radio Times

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