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Charles Chilton - Victorian Top of the Pops

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24/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Charles Chilton - Victorian Top of the Pops

Songs from the reign of Queen Victoria, with Joseph Cooper and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

4 Extra Debut. Songs from the reign of Queen Victoria, with Joseph Cooper and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Devised by Charles Chilton. From December 1978.

Part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's tribute to the remarkable talent of writer and producer Charles Chilton, who died on 2 January 2013 at the age of 95.

Charles Chilton devised and produced over 150 specialist radio programmes, and this one features a selection of songs and piano pieces that made the 'charts' in his great-grandfather's day during the reign of Queen Victoria. With Joseph Cooper and the BBC Concert Orchestra. 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.

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