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Mister Swing
As part of French Challenge, Daniel Pageon (who helps Gloria Hunniford with her own French Challenge all week) looks at the life and career of French crooner
Jean Sablon , who died in February aged 87.
The first popular singer in France to use the microphone he toured the world and was known as "the French Bing Crosby". Among his many hits were Le Fiacre and Sur le Pont d'Avignon. Including extracts from a 1988 interview.
Producer Anthony Wills

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Pageon
Unknown:
Gloria Hunniford
Unknown:
Jean Sablon
Producer:
Anthony Wills

Frank Renton presents the Sellers Engineering Band conducted by Phillip McCann in a selection of well-loved marches and waltzes.
Including The Parade of the Tin Soldiers, Marche
Militaire and The Waves of the Danube.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Renton
Conducted By:
Phillip McCann

Radio 2 Arts Programme John Amis discovers what happened to classical music and musicians between 1939 and 1945. He looks at orchestras, chamber music and singers at home and abroad, at the BBC, and listens to music composed in prisons and concentration camps. Producer Madeleine Cuming

Contributors

Unknown:
John Amis
Producer:
Madeleine Cuming

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