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With the Organist Entertains.

Standards, pops and classics from the organ and keyboard world, plus the latest news and information.

Including a visit to Southwell Minster in Nottinghamshire.

Phone [number removed] for programme information and details of organ clubs and societies. E-mail: [email address removed]

Contributors

Presenter/Organist:
Nigel Ogden

The last of three programmes in which Michael Freedland looks at three of cinema's most charismatic and enigmatic actors.
Yankee Doodle Boy Examining the life of one of the first great Hollywood gangsters. Brought up in a tough New York neighbourhood,
Cagney avoided a life of crime by taking dancing lessons, which gave him a lifelong passion for song and dance.

Choice: Jimmy Cagney was one of the Hollywood Tough Guys (9.00pm Radio 2). Born in poverty 100 years ago, he was grittily determined to do well and - bizarrely - took up dancing. In his first film role he played a female impersonator, before beginning a string of famous gangster movies which led Jack Warner to call him the "professional againster". Michael Freedland presents an hour of interviews and music about the man who probably never accused his opponent of being a dirty rat.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Freedland
Producer:
Neil Rosser

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