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Noel Coward

TV producer Peter Bazalgette chooses the actor, lyricist and playwright, Noel Coward. With Humphrey Carpenter. From 2003.

TV producer Peter Bazalgette chooses the actor, lyricist and playwright, Noel Coward.

Peter - the man behind TVs 'Big Brother' and 'Restoration' - tells Humphrey Carpenter why Noel Coward should achieve great life status.

Joining them is biographer Philip Hoare, and Noel Coward's former literary agent, Michael Imison.

Producer: Miles Warde

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003.

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