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'THE POET SINGS'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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English lyrics on gramophone records Marlowe : The Passionate Shepherd (Warlock) : Parry Jones
Shakespeare: Orpheus with his lute
(Sullivan) : Dora Labbette
Herrick : To Daisies (Quilter) :
Gervase Elwes
Tennyson : Now sleeps the crimson petal
(Quilter) : Derek Oldham
Browning : King Charles (M. V. 'White) :
Roy Henderson
Rossetti : Silent Noon (Vaughan Williams):
John McCormack
Housman : In summertime on Bredon
(Peel) : Stuart Robertson
Masefield : Captain Stratton's Fancy (Warlock) : Peter Dawson

Contributors

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Parry Jones
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Dora Labbette
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Gervase Elwes
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Derek Oldham
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King Charles
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Roy Henderson
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John McCormacK
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Stuart Robertson
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Peter Dawson

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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