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Musical Tales: Hansel and Gretel

on BBC Radio 3

Great composers have based much of their best-loved music on myth, legend and fairy stories.
Tony Robinson tells contemporary versions of the original tale against a background of the music they inspired. This week, how Hansel and Gretel were lost in the woods, came across a cottage made of sweets and fell foul of the witch who lived inside. With music from Humperdinck opera. A Ladbroke production

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