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The veteran BBC presenter and journalist RHOD SHARP was cut off from the work he loved by an accelerated retirement at the instant of the first Covid lockdowns. Could podcasts keep his listeners in the conversation?
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An American on the Western Front allows us a fresh glimpse of the United States’ story in World War I. A narrative history of America’s war, it is woven around the story and letters of the American serviceman Arthur Clifford Kimber. Kimber carried the First Flag of the United States to France in spring 1917 and served as an ambulancier and pilot with both French & American forces. Visit our website here (http://www.americanonthewesternfront.com) and our Twitter can be found here (https://twi ...
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Rhod Sharp and Tony Staveacre take a fond look back at the 57 year career of the beloved British comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor. Tony caddies for Tim on the golf course where they grew up, stopping along the way to remember Tim’s radio heroes.By Rhod Sharp/Tony Staveacre
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What was the prevailing sound on the Titanic? Light music, and lots of it. In The Band Played On, Tony Staveacre and Rhod Sharp recreate the musical voyage of SS Titanic, with a pickup band from the Savage Club of Bristol performing numbers from the White Star line songbook.By Rhod Sharp/Tony Staveacre
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Summon The Heroes: Keith Lockhart of The Boston Pops
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In 2020, a summer of no Olympics and precious little else because of lockdown, the conductor KEITH LOCKHART tells RHOD SHARP how 80 members of the Boston Pops came together from home in a YouTube performance of John Williams' Olympic anthem Summon The Heroes. (recorded June 2020)By Rhod Sharp
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Music Made Me: The Allan Schiller Story: Part 2
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In this concluding part of his audiobook, the renowned Mozartian Allan Schiller looks back on his student days at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire during the height of the Cold War. The members of Schiller’s piano trio prepare for the day when they go on the road.By Rhod Sharp/Allan Schiller
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Music Made Me: The Allan Schiller Story: Part 1
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In the first part of this audiobook, internationally renowned pianist Allan Schiller looks back on 1961 when at the age of 18 he was selected for the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire.By Rhod Sharp/Allan Schiller
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A Love Letter to America: Rhod Sharp talks to Jim Naughtie: Part 1
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Rhod talks to his old friend JAMES (Jim) NAUGHTIE about Jim’s introduction to the country 50 years ago this year and other memories collected in his book On The Road. (Recorded November 2020)By Rhod Sharp/James Naughtie
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A Love Letter to America: Rhod Sharp talks to Jim Naughtie: Part 2
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Starting at a party thrown by the Kennedy family at their compound on Martha’s Vineyard and ending with an autumn 2020 encounter in a Scranton, PA. coffee shop with two voters separated by generations and party affiliation, JIM NAUGHTIE weaves more stories of the changing American body politic while asserting unshakeable faith in human nature.…
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Astor Piazzolla - Tony Staveacre's interview
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Rhod Sharp and Tony Staveacre present a never-heard interview with a giant of music, Astor Piazzolla. Piazzolla inspired generations of musicians with his classically-trained approach to a form once heard only in the brothels of Buenos Aires. He called it New Tango. Such was the initial hostility to it in Argentina that he was forever grateful he h…
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Patrick Gregory talks to Rhod Sharp on BBC Radio 5Live's 'Up All Night', 25 April 2017.
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