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Talking about Lionel

Factual: Life Stories

Music: Easy Listening, Soundtracks & Musicals

06/12/2008

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Talking about Lionel

Eddie Mair tells the story of the composer Lionel Bart, creator of Oliver!

4 Extra Debut. Eddie Mair discovers how the 1960s wunderkind of British musical theatre, Lionel Bart, hit disaster. With Tim Rice. From December 2008.

Eddie Mair tells the story of composer Lionel Bart, creator of Britain's most successful post-war musical, Oliver!

From the height of his dazzling fame in the 1960s, Bart endured a series of flops, leading to eventual bankruptcy, and he suffered serious health problems, including long battles with alcoholism and depression. He died aged 69 in 1999. 

Eddie tells the story of this sensitive and troubled artist with the help of those who knew him intimately, including Tim Rice, Cameron Mackintosh, Miriam Karlin and Barbara Windsor.

Producers: Jo Coombs and Stewart Henderson 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.

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