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Vintage Years

on BBC Radio 2

12.00
Desmond Carrington with Radio 2 All-Time Greats
Your favourite tunes and performances on record.
2.00pm Benny Green
3.00 David Jacobs with Sounds Easy
4.00 New series
Legends of Light Music In the first of a six-part series featuring recordings of the work of writers and arrangers who provided some of the best-loved music of the 30s, 40s and 50s, Denis Norden celebrates such outstanding orchestral craftsmen as George Melachrino ,
Clive Richardson and David Rose.
In the studio the BBC
Concert Orchestra, conducted by Robin Stapleton , re-creates for the first time in 50 years an ITMA special arrangement. Producer Roy Oakshott
4.30 Sing Something Simple with the Cliff Adams
Singers, accompanied by Jack Emblow.
5.00 Charlie Chester with Sunday Soapbox
During the programme, call [number removed].
6.30 Ronnie Hilton with Sounds of the 50s
Repeated next Sunday at 12.05am

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
George Melachrino
Unknown:
Clive Richardson
Unknown:
David Rose.
Conducted By:
Robin Stapleton
Producer:
Roy Oakshott
Singers:
Cliff Adams
Accompanied By:
Jack Emblow.
Accompanied By:
Chartie Chester
Unknown:
Ronnie Hilton

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