from Leicester.
On the eve of the BBC Radio On Show in Leicester, John Florance looks at the arts scene in Leicester and the East
Midlands. Among the guests: Paul McCreesh , founder of the international early music group the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and Nigel Hines , the former director of Leicester's
Phoenix Arts Centre, who has just taken up his new job at London's Sadlers
Wells Theatre. Plus a look at the Little Theatre,
Leicester's home of amateur drama, whose past members include Sir Richard Attenborough and Joe Orton.
Producer David Corser