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The Land Where the Good Songs Go

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A Journey in Search of Forgotten Musicals
Hammerstein between
Revolutions
In the second of six programmes, Mark Steyn unearths forgotten works by master lyricist Oscar
Hammerstein II to mark the centenary of his birth. James Hammerstein remembers his father's resilience in the lean years between Show Boat and Oklahoma!, and Ted Chapin of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Trust talks about some of the shows that failed to make the record books - Me and Juliet, Allegro and the ill-fated Pipe Dream, based on a John Steinbeck novel and recalled by the writer's widow, Elaine Steinbeck. A Cat's Whiskers/Rewind production
Repeated Friday at 12 midnight

Contributors

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Mark Steyn
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James Hammerstein
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Ted Chapin
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John Steinbeck
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Elaine Steinbeck.
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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