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Roy Plomley's castaway is critic Alan Dent.

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Sat 8 Jan 194418:35
Forces Programme

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Music Played

  • Hector Berlioz

    Absence (from Les nuits d'été)

    Soloist: Maggie Teyte Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

  • Isobel Baillie

    Ca' The Yowes to the Knowes

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Largo al factotum (from The Barber of Seville)

    Soloist: Dennis Noble Orchestra: Sadler's Wells Orchestra

  • George Frideric Handel

    Where'er you walk (from Semele)

    Soloist: Webster Booth Orchestra: Hallé Orchestra Conductor: Warwick Braithwaite

  • Charles Dibdin

    Tom Bowling

    Soloist: Walter Widdop

  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik (To Music), D547

    Soloist: Isobel Baillie

  • Chauve-Souris Company

    Round the Hay Wain'

  • Jean Sablon

    Sur le Pont D'Avignon

Credits

PresenterRoy Plomley
Interviewed GuestAlan Dent

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  • Sat 8 Jan 194418:35
    Forces Programme

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