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Sunday Night is Music Night

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Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

Friday Night Is Music Night

Jeremy Vine

BBC Concert Orchestra

Guy Barker Big Band

Curtis Stigers

Lianne Carroll

Kurt Elling

Anthony Cherry

Sunday Night is Music Night: Hoods, Horns and Hooch!

Music: Classical

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02/05/2014

Hoods, Horns and Hooch!

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, Hoods, Horns and Hooch!

Jeremy Vine presents the music of Prohibition, Al Capone's Chicago and all that jazz.

Jeremy Vine presents the music of Prohibition, Al Capone and all that jazz. Guests Curtis Stigers, Liane Carroll and Kurt Elling with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Includes interval.

'Hoods, Horns, and Hooch' - Jeremy Vine presents a Friday Night special, featuring the music and telling the story of the Prohibition era. On May 2nd, live at the Cheltenham jazz festival the 60 piece BBC Concert Orchestra are joined by the Guy Barker Big Band, conducted by Guy Barker, and singers Curtis Stigers, Liane Carroll and Kurt Elling. With new arrangements of songs written during the Prohibition years taking you back to the spats and speakeasies; the rackets and scandals; the rhythm and booze; the hoods, the horns and the hooch, of 1920's Chicago. Music from Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Mercer, Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Harry Warren and a special selection from Louis Prima.

During the interval, Joe Haddow looks at some of the most famous gangsters from the movies and musicals, to find out if they really were bad guys, or just misunderstood. He talks to actor Douglas Hodge, casting director David Grindrod and theatre critic Mark Shenton.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

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