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The Life and Times of the Piano

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A series of nine programmes in which Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano from the palaces of 18th-century Europe to the saloons of the Wild West.
2: From Revival-Meeting to Rent-Shout
This week 'we meet the piano riding at the crest of the Ragtime wave. Accompanying us on the road to the jazz world are such larger-than-life figures as WILLIE 'THE LION' SMITH, LUCKEY ROBERTS. LIONEL HAMPTON and FATS WALLER.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON gramophone records followed by an interlude

Contributors

Unknown:
Jeremy Siepmann
Unknown:
Lionel Hampton
Unknown:
Fats Waller.
Producer:
Arthur Johnson
Source: Radio Times

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