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Where Are They Now?

BBC Radio 3
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Kenneth Shenton reflects on the languishing reputations of five English composers.
3: Mary Wakefield
Her distinguished career as a singer was paralleled by her untiring efforts to bring music-making back into rural life, particularly in her beloved Lake District.
This close friend of John
Ruskin was renowned throughout Victorian
England, but all that now remains is her Wakefield
Competition in Kendal. Singer Sally Sradshaw

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Unknown:
Kenneth Shenton
Unknown:
Mary Wakefield
Singer:
Sally Sradshaw
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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