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All Music at Wavendon. Alyn Shipton continues his series looking back on the careers of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth and their work at the Stables, the arts centre they founded attheirhome in Wavendon. Sharing their vision for an all-encompassing music policy were co-directors guitarist John Williams and pianist and composer Richard Rodney Bennett
. Education was at the forefront of the "All Music" plan and Alyn Shipton also talks to Avril Dankworth , who started the summer music courses at Wavendon, and to former pnme minister Edward Heath , who conducted a performanceof Tom Sawyer 's Saturday, a work by John Dankworth for narrator and youth orchestra.

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Alyn Shipton
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Cleo Laine
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John Dankworth
Guitarist:
John Williams
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Richard Rodney Bennett
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Alyn Shipton
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Avril Dankworth
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Edward Heath
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Tom Sawyer
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John Dankworth

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