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Don Black presents a series profiling perhaps the most famous of all American theatre composers, whose many classics include Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music.

The ancestral tree of musicals, featuring Trevor Nunn on the recent Royal National Theatre production of South Pacific, while Mary Rodgers remembers her visit, aged five, to her father's circus musical, Jumbo, starring Jimmy Durante.

Contributors

Presenter:
Don Black
Interviewee:
Trevor Nunn
Interviewee:
Mary Rodgers

BBC Radio 2

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Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

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