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Carl Davis presents a series featuring a new selection of classic tracks from stage, screen, concert hall and opera. This programme pays tribute to violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin.
Producer Paul Hindmarsh

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Davis
Conductor:
Yehudi Menuhin.
Producer:
Paul Hindmarsh

Russell Davies presents a three-part tribute to Duke
Ellington. The first programme looks at how, as a young man, he learnt the piano and took a band to New York.
Here he made his name at the Cotton Club. Featuring the voices of his sister Ruth, his son Mercer, some
Ellington bandsmen, Dizzy Gillespie , Mel Torme , and Ellington himself.
Producer Graham Pass
* Brian Kay 's Pick of the Week: page 45

Contributors

Unknown:
Russell Davies
Unknown:
Dizzy Gillespie
Unknown:
Mel Torme
Unknown:
Brian Kay

Alan Whicker presents a series focusing on enterprising Britons who have chosen to live and work in America and whom he first interviewed 15 years ago. Tonight he meets
Harold Evans , former editor of The
Times. and the power behind Vogue, Shirley Lord.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Whicker
Unknown:
Harold Evans
Unknown:
Shirley Lord.

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