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Jon Vickers' 75th Birthday

Profile of operatic tenor Jon Vickers on his 75th birthday. As a boy in Canada, he never dreamed of becoming an opera star – his first 'engagements' were singing to prisoners and asylum inmates in a church outreach programme.

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´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project