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Producers Anne Freeman and Jennifer Teague

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Producers:
Anne Freeman
Producers:
Jennifer Teague

A six-part series in which
Neil Innes explores the use of comedy and the keyboard.
3:A Klassical Koncert
Featuring Eric Morecambe , Anna Russell , Spike Jones , Victor Borge , and Flanders and Swann.
Written and researched by Nick Yapp

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Neil Innes
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Eric Morecambe
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Anna Russell
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Spike Jones
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Victor Borge
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Nick Yapp

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 and escaped the pit to become principal tenor at Covent Garden. But Burke loved wine and women as much as song and ended up in workingmen's clubs singing for a pound or two a night. Rpt

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Tom Burke

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