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The Longest Tour

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2/2. Stephen Johnson continues charting the course of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's war.
Having been bombed out of Bristol, the orchestra was sent to Bedford, its home for the rest of the war. Today Stephen Johnson looks at some of its significant artistic achievements, some comic episodes, and the sad and untimely death of Sir Henry Wood.

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Stephen Johnson
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Stephen Johnson
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Henry Wood.
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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