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Composer of the Week: Rodgers

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With Donald Macleod and Adrian Edwards. 4: Big Screen, Little Screen
Richard Rodgers was perhaps never entirely happywriting for Hollywood, but many of his stage shows found a new life on the silver screen. Music in today's programme includes Judy Garland singing JohnnyOne-note, Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald with Love Me
Tonight, Doris Day and Jimmy Durante with Jumbo, Frank Sinatra singing The Lady Is a Tramp, some of Rodgers's music from the television series Victory at Sea, and Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.

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Donald MacLeod
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Adrian Edwards.
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Richard Rodgers
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Judy Garland
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Maurice Chevalier
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Jeanette MacDonald
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Jimmy Durante
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Frank Sinatra
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Julie Andrews
Source: Radio Times

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