Today – Tuesday
25 April – marks the centenary of the birth of Ella Fitzgerald. From her
success in the Apollo Theater,
Radio 2 weighs
in with two programmes; Remembering Ella
(8:00pm) presented by Leo Green. Talking heads include Cleo Laine, Patti
Austin and Mica Paris. At 10:00pm Ella
Fitzgerald – the First Lady of Song explores Ella’s life in jazz in the
first of two hour-long programmes; Ella
Fitzgerald – the First Lady of Song. Hats off to the Beeb.
Russell
3 comments :
Agree Russell, what would we do without the Beeb? Denys used to say "Thank God for the BBC"
Yes - chapeaux - but where is the TV coverage?
yes I thought that, poor oversight on their behalf.
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