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Radio 3,22 mins

'I've found Croydon's answer to Prince'

Essential Classics

Available for over a year

Lenny Henry reveals his greatest inspirations - from 19th-century composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to film director Steve McQueen, via Stevie Wonder, Horace Ové and Paul Robeson. Lenny Henry is the co-host of the BBC season Our Classical Century and is Suzy Klein's guest on BBC Radio 3's Essential Classics. For more info, visit bbc.co.uk/ourclassicalcentury. Image of Sir Lenny Henry © Jack Lawson

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