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Groucho Was My Father

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Miriam Marx Allen offers a glimpse of the compassionate and complex man behind the greasepaint moustache, and introduces letters that she received from her father while at Bennington College in Vermont. The letters touch on schoolwork, boyfriends, career choices, family feuds, problems with alcohol, politics, baseball and taxes. Frank Ferrante provides the voice of Groucho. Compiled and introduced byTonyStaveacre.
Producer Susan Roberts

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Miriam Marx Allen
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Frank Ferrante
Producer:
Susan Roberts
Source: Radio Times

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