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The Musical Side of the Family

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George Galway remembers his childhood with his brother James on the streets of Protestant north Belfast. He has spent his life playing jazz and teaching clarinet to Manchester school children, while James is internationally celebrated as the "Man with the Golden Flute". George examines the influence of flute bands on the family and recalls how his father reacted when James announced that he mightconvertto Catholicism. Producer Bill Lloyd

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