Christmas Day began at 9:00am with Petroc Trelawny's Christmas Morning Live. The BBC Radio 3 presenter's studio guests included Claire Martin and Jim Mullen. Award winners both, Claire and Jim chatted with Petroc in between playing some classy, if not seasonal, jazz numbers. Frank Loesser's What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? followed by Johnny Mandel's Close Enough for Love, both beautifully played, the duo's partnership going back some two, maybe three decades.
Half an hour or so later, Claire and Jim returned with Pure Imagination (Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley) from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Claire has just recorded a new album of songs written by Richard Rodney Bennett and Petroc remembered Claire's former musical partner, who died ten year's ago yesterday, with a recording of Bennett's Let's Go Live in the Country. Our duo signed off with Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from Judy Garland's movie Meet Me in St Louis. Listen to the entire programme at anytime for the next 29 days. If it's Claire and Jim you specifically want to hear, their spot begins approximately two hours forty minutes in. Russell
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