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'THE SPIRIT OF FRANCE'

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on BBC Home Service Basic

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Another programme of French poems and songs, in the original and in translation, compiled by Raymond Mortimer. Poems by Charles d'Orleans, du Bellay, Heredia, Desportes, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Mallarme, and songs by Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn , and Faure, spoken and sung by Marcel Duchesne , Celia Johnson , Valentine Dyall , and Maggie Teyte
A previous programme on these lines, compiled by Raymond Mortimer for France's National Day, July 14, last year proved so successful that this second series has been arranged.

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Mortimer.
Unknown:
Reynaldo Hahn
Sung By:
Marcel Duchesne
Sung By:
Celia Johnson
Sung By:
Valentine Dyall
Sung By:
Maggie Teyte
Unknown:
Raymond Mortimer
Source: Radio Times

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