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Faith in a Elevator

Episode 3

Duration: 27 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 2Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 2

Dr Richard Niles celebrates the life and music of the late and great Canadian arranger Percy Faith, who was born in 1908, and has gone down in music history as the man who invented elevator music.

In the final episode arrangers John Altman and Nick Ingman, and The Feeling's bassist Rich Jones discuss Faith's chart-topping Theme From Moulin Rouge. And Sheffield's finest, Richard Hawley, drops by to listen to the Percy Faith style arrangement of his song Tonight The Streets Are Ours. Show less

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