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John Barrowman profiles and interviews the phenomenally successful musicals specialist Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose version of Wilkie Collins's Victorian thriller "The Woman in White" opens next month in London. The series reappraises his music and explores his business empire. This first part looks at Lloyd Webber's debt to Broadway, and how he beat the Americans at their own game.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Barrowman
Subject/interviewee:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Producer:
Malcolm Prince

3/4. Nancy Wilson continues a profile of veteran jazz pianist George Shearing, who is 85 this month. This instalment recalls some of the artist's instrumental collaborations, including musical ventures with Stephane Grappelli, the Robert Farnon Orchestra and Marian MacPartland.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nancy Wilson
Pianist:
George Shearing
Unknown:
Stephane Grappelli
Unknown:
Marian MacPartland.

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