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Radio 3,7 mins

Between The Ears: Knoxville - Summer of 1995 [3 October 1995]. Prix Italia award winner

Between the Ears

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The Knoxville of 1915, vividly evoked in James Agee's prose poem and Samuel Barber's lyrical setting, colliding with the experience and the sounds of modern city life in Knoxville: Summer of 1995, created for the programme. Captured in the words of the city's residents and interwoven with Eleanor Steber's 1950 recording of Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Producer Alan Hall.

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