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Michael Parkinson: My Favourite Things

28/05/2013

Duration: 57 minutes

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

Sir Michael Parkinson looks at the next generation of Great American Songbook singers. They include jazz musicians, like Diana Krall and Jamie Cullum, rock artists like Rod Stewart and Annie Lennox and some surprises including Paul McCartney and 'Family Guy's', Seth MacFarlane. Sir Michael celebrates the fact that the music made famous by the likes of Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald has been handed on to new singers and suggests that the work of songwriters like Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and the Gershwins will continue to be recorded and performed for all time ... Show less

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