Musicals: The Greatest Show
00:25:15 and 01:34:40 Layton Williams round-up of theatre which “will return later in 2021”
BBC Radio 2
Proms in the Park 2019
04:18:45 Suzy Klein feature on the history of the BBC Proms, with celebrity contributions
Ed Balls (Musical Theatre)
00:50:45 Interval feature: politics meets the musicals – Ed Balls ‘Do You Hear the People Sing’ Billy Elliot: ‘Once We Were Kings’ Hamilton: ‘You’ll Be Back’ Rachel Tucker interview ‘Defying Gravity’ interview about Come from Away (in rehearsal)
Pure Imagination
Interval feature: Tanya Kirk, lead curator of printed heritage collections at the British Library. History of children’s literature before Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. excerpt from radio play of Alice in Wonderland interview with Jacqueline Wilson excerpt read by children from The Gruffalo interview with Julia Donaldson
A Christmas Carol (Friday Night Is Music Night)
00:08:50 Scene 1 00:23:00 Chapter 2 – Marley’s Ghost 00:37:30 The Ghost of Christmas Past 00:54:00 Chapter 4 01:11:00 Interview with Katie Melua about Christmas in Georgia 01:16:45 Chapter 5 – The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come 01:35:11 The End of It
Scrooge
01:09:00 Interval feature – Sean Street and Nicholas Boulton reflect on how Dickens has shaped how we think of Christmas, including excerpts from The Pickwick Papers, ‘What Christmas Is When We Grow Older’. Recorded at Palace Theatre, Manchester