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Hymn: Alan Bennett And The Medici String Quartet

Author : Alan Bennett and George Fenton

Performed By : Alan Bennett

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 50 minutes

Categories : Biographical
Music Related
Comedy
Biographical
Non Fiction

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Recorded live for BBC Radio 4, Hymn is a memoir of music in childhood, written by Alan Bennett and George Fenton

 

'I am one of those boys, state-educated in the Forties and Fifties, who came by the words of Hymns Ancient and Modern by singing them day in, day out in school every morning at assembly. It's a dwindling band... you con pick us out at funerals and memorial services because we can sing the hymns without the book'

To mark their 30th anniversary, the Medici Quartet asked composer George Fenton and writer Alan Bennett to collaborate on a piece for performance at the Harrogate International Festival. The result was Hymn, a meditative piece, by turns funny and

melancholy, in which Bennett looks at the part which music played in his childhood, at his father's doomed attempts to teach him the violin, and at what hymns mean to him now. The illustrative suite for strings, played by the Medici Quartet , draws on a range of musical references including Elgar, Delius and several well-known hymns. Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, Hymn is prefaced by an introduction from the author.

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Just a Little Fiddle

Author : Dennis Rookard

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Hosiprog

Runtime : 30 minutes

Categories : Humor
Comedy
Dramatizations

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Ever since that long gone age of railways - Whenever that was - Stations have needed porters. That special breed of men who during those long periods between trains, can find endless tasks to perform along the platforms.

Yet can, with the appearance of a train and it's passengers, vanish. Only reappearing if the smell of a large tip is in the air.

Burt Pride is just such a man, and Burt, a long time servant of the railway, knows that every job has it's little fiddles and is not above making them work to his advantage.

Cast List:
Burt Pride... Peter Seaman
Jim Prentice... John Lawrence
Sarah... Angela Neville
Nigel Bridger... Peter Mayn
Fred... Keith Flack
Gary Stranks... Scott Peters
Claire... Rose Butcher
Rev Linda Cartwright... Rita Mayn
Policeman... Tony Hine

Produced & Directed by John Glasscock
Audio Direction and Realisation by Dennis Rookard

With grateful thanks to First Great Eastern for location facilities, Brentwood Talking Newspaper for studio use, and to John Glasscock for additional dialogue.