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Afternoon Play: Flee As a Bird to theMountain

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

By Don Taylor. With Jack Shepherd , Philip Jackson and Trevor Cooper. A group of male friends in their 60s revive the schoolboy New Orleans Jazz band that expressed their purist youthful idealism. Youth and its high ideals have a brief musical re-flowering, until tragedy strikes. Has their time finally passed? Music by Bob Dwyer's Hot Six Director Peter Kavanagh

Contributors

Writer:
Don Taylor
Music by:
Bob Dwyer's Hot Six
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Dave:
Jack Shepherd
Colin:
Philip Jackson
Derek:
Trevor Cooper
Dick:
Thomas Arnold
Bob:
Philip Joseph
Jenny:
Elizabeth Bell
Chris:
Martin Hyder
Source: Radio Times

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