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Sounds and Sweet Airs

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Shakespearian music including incidental music from productions of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre 1948-60
The Players:
Derek Godfrey, Ian Holm, Barbara Barnett, Ian Richardson, David Sumner
The Musicians:
BBC Midland Singers
Conductor, John Lowe
An Instrumental Ensemble led by Nicholas Roth
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Wind Band
(Leader, Alec Whittaker)
Director of Music, Brian Priestman
Introduced by John Lowe

(BBC recording)
(The Players, the Theatre Wind Band, and Brian Priestman broadcast by permission of the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Lowe
[Actor]:
Derek Godfrey
[Actor]:
Ian Holm
[Actress]:
Barbara Barnett
[Actor]:
Ian Richardson
[Actor]:
David Sumner
Singers:
BBC Midland Singers
Conductor:
John Lowe
Instrumental Ensemble Leader:
Nicholas Roth
Musicians:
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Wind Band
Wind Band Leader:
Alec Whittaker
Director of Music:
Brian Priestman
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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