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Don Taylor - Flee as a Bird to the Mountain

4 Extra Debut. A group of 60-something men revive their schoolboy New Orleans Jazz band. But then tragedy strikes. Stars Jack Shepherd. From August 2003.

A group of male friends in their 60s revive the schoolboy New Orleans Jazz band that expressed their purist youthful idealism.

Youth and its high ideals have a brief musical re-flowering, until tragedy strikes. Has their time has finally passed?

Don Taylor's drama stars Jack Shepherd as Dave, Philip Jackson as Colin, Trevor Cooper as Derek, Thomas Arnold as Dick, Philip Joseph as Bob, Elizabeth Bell as Jenny and Martin Hyder as Chris.

Music by Bob Dwyer's Hot Six.

Director: Peter Kavanagh.

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in 2003.

45 minutes

Last on

Mon 18 Dec 2017 21:15

Broadcasts

  • Mon 18 Dec 2017 11:15
  • Mon 18 Dec 2017 21:15