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Bunk and Bull

BBC Radio 3
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After a brilliant start to his career, trumpeter Bunk Johnson, vanished from sight, to be rediscovered in 1939 by musicologist Bill Russell. In the first of four programmes, Russell describes to
Michael Pointon his search for this controversial musician and how he instigated the first of many recordings. Producer Derek Drescher

Contributors

Musicologist:
Bill Russell.
Unknown:
Michael Pointon
Producer:
Derek Drescher
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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