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Great Lives

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Humphrey Carpenter invites famous people to nominate great lives fordiscussion. Chris Barber , who has been ajazzband leader since 1949, didn't have to think too hard: his chosen subject is the founding father of jazz, Louis Armstrong. Joining them to discuss the immortal Satchmo is his biographer Laurence Bergreen. Producer Peter Everett

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Humphrey Carpenter
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Chris Barber
Unknown:
Louis Armstrong.
Unknown:
Laurence Bergreen.
Producer:
Peter Everett
Source: Radio Times

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