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Trevor Peacock

Michael Berkeley is joined by stage and TV actor Trevor Peacock. His choices include works by Walton, Vaughan Williams, Tallis, Dvorak, Ravel, Shostakovich, Gershwin and Tomlinson.

Michael Berkeley welcomes the distinguished stage and TV actor Trevor Peacock, whose most famous TV role is Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley. He has appeared in many other TV programmes, from Madame Bovary and The Old Curiosity Shop to EastEnders, Jonathan Creek, Hotel Babylon and Last of the Summer Wine; and has had starring roles in ´óÏó´«Ã½ Shakespeare adaptations, including the title-role in Titus Andronicus and Feste in Twelfth Night. During his long stage career he has been particularly asociated with the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester. A noted songwriter, he wrote the 1960s pop classic 'Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter', as well as other hits.

His private musical tastes are wide-ranging, from English classics such as Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis to Dvorak's Symphony No.8, Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, as well as music by Gershwin and Ernest Tomlinson.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 11 Mar 2012 12:00

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    1st mvt of Symphony no 8 in G major (op 88)

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra/Andrew Davis

    • CBS M2YK45618.
  • William Walton

    Babylon was a great city' from 'Belshazzar's Feast

    Performers: John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/André Previn

    • EMI CDC7476242.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Prélude' from 'Le tombeau de Couperin

    Performers: Anne Queffélec (piano)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS VC7592332.
  • Ernest Tomlinson

    'Dick's Maggot' from First Suite of English Folk-Dances

    Performers: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Tomlinson

    • MARCO POLO 8223513.
  • Thomas Tallis

    Fantasia on a Theme (excerpt)

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley

    • CFP CDCFPSD4754.
  • George Gershwin

    'Gone' from Porgy & Bess

    Performers: Cbs 4509852

    • Miles Davis (Orchestra dir by Gil Evans).
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    1st mvt from Symphony no 10 (op 93) (excerpt)

    Performers: Emi Cdc7473502

    • Philharmonia Orchestra/Simon Rattle.
  • Alain Romans

    Quel temps fait-il a Paris' from 'M. Hulot's Holiday

    Performers: The original soundtrack recording

    • POLYGRAM 8369832POLYG.

Broadcast

  • Sun 11 Mar 2012 12:00

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