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Frank Swinnerton

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Frank Swinnerton.

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Sat 19 Jun 194318:05
Forces Programme

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Music Played

  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell Overture

  • Arthur Sullivan

    If you want to know who we are (from The Mikado)

    Librettist: William Gilbert.

  • The Band of the Coldstream Guards

    Stars And Stripes Forever

  • Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Danse Macabre

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for Strings in C major - Waltz

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major 'Emperor'

  • Die Fledermaus Act 2 (finale)

Credits

PresenterRoy Plomley
Interviewed GuestFrank Swinnerton

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 Jun 194318:05
    Forces Programme

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