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Setting Brunel to Music

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the engineering genius of the Victorian age who designed, among other engineering feats, the Rotherhithe Tunnel, the Tamar Bridge and the SS Great Eastern. Now work has begun on an "industrial opera" based on his life.
Fiona Talkington follows the composers,
Matthew King and Nye Parry , as they tackle the task of depicting such a huge personality. Producer Lyndon Jones

Contributors

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Tamar Bridge
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Fiona Talkington
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Matthew King
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Nye Parry
Producer:
Lyndon Jones
Source: Radio Times

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