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Culture File: A Christmas Childhood

Culture File: A Christmas Childhood

Clip • 8 Mins • 24 DEC 18 • Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive ADVERTISEMENT PLAYING…

Composer Tom Lane recalls childhood memories that inspired his choral setting of Patrick Kavanagh's A Christmas Childhood

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Galileo

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