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Soul Music: Series 4: Mad About the Boy

Mad About the Boy

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BBC Radio 4 - Soul Music, Series 4, Mad About the Boy

Noël Coward wrote Mad About the Boy to celebrate the appeal of the silent movie star.

Noël Coward wrote Mad about the Boy in 1932 to celebrate the powerful appeal of the silent movie star. From 2004.

Noël Coward wrote Mad about the Boy in 1932 for the review Words and Music to celebrate the powerful appeal of the silent movie star. 

Most recently it's been taken up as a gay anthem. 

Sheridan Morley, Sir John Mills, Maria Aitken and Kit Hesketh-Harvey explain why this has become the most recorded number of all Coward's work.

Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.

Producer: Lucy Lunt

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.

Soul Music: Series 4

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