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The Beggar's Opera

BBC Radio 3
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Guy Woolfenden presents the first of three programmes telling the tale through many different eyes and ears - from Gay and Pepusch's original to Brecht and Weill's Thruppenny Opera, via arrangements by Milhaud and Britten.
This week, Act 1.
Polly Peachum 's parents, being "respectable" crooks, aren't too happy when she gets herself hitched to a highwayman.
Producer David Gallagher
SEE THIS WEEK page 14

Contributors

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Guy Woolfenden
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Polly Peachum
Producer:
David Gallagher
Source: Radio Times

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