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How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear

BBC Radio 3
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by Edwin Roxburgh : a setting of some Edward Lear poems for narrator and orchestra
How pleasant to know Mr Lear A poet without any peer As Parsons rehearses The wit of his verses
We invite you to lend him an ear.
Nicholas Parsons
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE
(Composer's Portrait on Edwin Roxburgh : 26 October)

Contributors

Unknown:
Edwin Roxburgh
Unknown:
Edward Lear
Unknown:
Mr Lear
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Conductor:
Ashley Lawrence
Unknown:
Edwin Roxburgh
Source: Radio Times

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