Keep the 成人快手 Fires Burning
The story of Ivor Novello, featuring his best tunes, archive material from the Imperial War Museum and an exploration of how music was used as a morale booster in World War I.
Many people know of the Ivor Novello Awards but not the fascinating story of the man himself and the song that made his name. Keep The 成人快手 Fires Burning marks the centenary of a song that became popular both in the trenches and on the home front, and continued to be sung by soldiers in conflicts well into the 1950s. The programme features the best Ivor Novello tunes, some extraordinary Imperial War Museum archive and explores how music was used as a morale booster in the First World War. Keep The 成人快手 Fires Burning made Novello a fortune and launched a career that saw him become the leading composer of musical theatre of the 1930s and 1940s.
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- Thu 2 Oct 2014 22:00成人快手 Radio 2
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