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Michael Redgrave

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Michael Redgrave.

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Sat 6 Oct 194520:45
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Music Played

  • Tito Schipa

    Marechiare

  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Quartet

  • Barbara Mullen

    I Know Where I'm Goin'

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orpheus and Euridice)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Arturo Toscanini

  • William Wordsworth

    Upon Westminster Bridge

    Artist: Edith Evans

  • Michael Redgrave

    Youth's the Season (from The Beggar's Opera)

  • Benjamin Britten

    Little Sir William and Oliver Cromwell

    Soloist: Peter Pears

  • George Frideric Handel

    Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E major

    Soloist: Yehudi Menuhin, Marcel Gazelle

Credits

PresenterRoy Plomley
Interviewed GuestMichael Redgrave

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 Oct 194520:45
    Home Service

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