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Oh My What a Rotten Song!

4 Extra Debut. Catchy tunes and a witty chorus - Michael Rosen profiles famed songwriters of the early 20th century, RP Weston and Bert Lee.

Michael Rosen revels in songwriting duo RP Weston and Bert Lee's uncanny knack for coming up with the catchy tune and the witty chorus that everyone loved to sing.

The pair were among the foremost popular songwriters of the 1910s and 1920s, writing separately or together some 3,000 songs in their 21-year collaboration, many of which have passed into the nation's collective musical psyche, including Hello, Hello Who's Your Lady Friend?, I'm Henery the Eighth I Am and, apparently, Knees Up Mother Brown.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 10 Jun 201302:30
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Tue 16 Jun 200913:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sat 20 Jun 200915:30
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 9 Jun 201311:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sun 9 Jun 201319:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Mon 10 Jun 201302:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra