0732: A Century of Song with David William Hughes Part 1

Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 6 a.m.

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This week, Thos chats to David William Hughes, academic and performer of historic music, as they discuss his one man musical, Elizabethan, featuring Tudor and Jacobean songs and how music underwent a seismic development soon, ushering a musical world we still have today.\\xa0 They then look forward to next week\\u2019s episode which leaps forward about a hundred years to look at the comic songs of the later Stuart monarchs and helped give rise to the Beggar\\u2019s Opera, one of the foundations of modern musical theatre.

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