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Sunday Feature: The D-D-Drunken P-P-Poet

BBC Radio 3
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Thomas Durfey was one of the most versatile musical personalities of the Restoration: composer, player, singer, collector, writer, publisher, entrepreneur. Friendly with all the great figures of the time, Durfey is the model affectionately parodied as the drunken (and stammering) poet in Purcell's Fairy Queen.
Today he is best known for the great collection of popular songs and ballads that went on to feed
John Gay 's The Beggar's Opera and its successors. With contributions from Richard
Luckett, Andrew Pinnock , Roger Savage , Don Taylor and Christopher Wheatley. Producer Daniel Snowman

Contributors

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Thomas Durfey
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John Gay
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Andrew Pinnock
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Roger Savage
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Don Taylor
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Christopher Wheatley.
Producer:
Daniel Snowman
Source: Radio Times

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