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Vaughan Williams: Late Love, Late Life

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15/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Vaughan Williams: Late Love, Late Life

Julian Lloyd Webber examines composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's affair with Ursula Wood.

Aged 66, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was smitten by 25-year-old Ursula Wood. Julian Lloyd Webber investigates. From July 2008.

Julian Lloyd Webber examines the impact of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's affair with Ursula Wood on his life and music. The affair began in March 1938, when he was 66 and Ursula 25, and lasted until 1951, when they were able to marry following the death of his wife Adeline.

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