WW1 Musical Story 4/10 - Lilian Baylis

Published: June 30, 2014, 2:06 p.m.

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As part of Music in the Great War on Radio 3, David Owen Norris takes a look at music on the Home Front and takes a trip South of the Thames to the Old Vic; the theatre slap bang in the middle of the Waterloo slums where Lilian Baylis staged her groundbreaking seasons of Shakespeare and opera while the zeppelins dropped bombs around her.

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