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Barry Norman hosts the quiz in which teams of celebrities compete to answer questions about crime fiction in books, TV, film and radio and to solve mini-murder mysteries performed by the Clueless Wonders - David Timson and Joanna Brookes. This week, Dulcie Gray and William Franklyn pit their sleuthing skills against
Francis Matthews and Ted Allbeury .
A Ladbroke Radio production

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Barry Norman
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David Timson
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Joanna Brookes.
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Dulcie Gray
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William Franklyn
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Francis Matthews
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Ted Allbeury

John Waite explores the career of one of Britain's finest but least remembered tenors. Born to poverty in a Lancashire mining community,
Tom Burke sold tripe in pubs to pay for singing lessons, escaping the pit to become principal tenor at Covent Garden. Encouraged by Caruso and feted by Puccini, he was the darling of society on both sides of the Atlantic for over a decade. But Burke loved wine and women as much as song, and the man once hailed as "The Lancashire
Caruso" ended up in working men's clubs singing for a pound or two a night. Producer Graham Ellis

Contributors

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John Waite
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Tom Burke
Producer:
Graham Ellis

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