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1.00 Desmond Carrington with Radio 2 All-Time Greats
3.00 Benny Green
4.00 Sweet and Low
Leonard Pearcey presents a series devoted to music of the Victorian and Edwardian parlour. The guest singers include Stuart Burrows , and the Parlour Quartet.
4.30 Sing Something Simple With the Cliff Adams Singers.
5.00 Pam Ayres
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Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Unknown:
Leonard Pearcey
Unknown:
Stuart Burrows
Singers:
Cliff Adams
Singers:
Pam Ayres

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, Tony Robinson visits the "green fields of France" and recounts the story of WWI through its music and the memorials to the fallen. Paul McGann reads poetry of the trenches, Bill Tidy sketches the picture of a wartime cartoonist, Victor Spinetti recalls the songs that inspired Oh! What a Lovely War, and Patrick Wright reveals how the tank made its first appearance as a military weapon.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Robinson
Reader:
Paul McGann
Speaker:
Bill Tidy
Speaker:
Victor Spinetti
Speaker:
Patrick Wright
Producer:
Ruth Prince

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More