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Lucie Skeaping on Thomas Ravenscroft

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Radio 3 presenter Lucie Skeaping celebrates a composer whose music has particularly inspired her: the Elizabethan Thomas Ravenscroft, a contemporary of Shakespeare who wrote songs that became incredibly popular - or, like Shakespeare, borrowed from the popular imagination and made it his own.

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Wed 25 Mar 2015 22:45
91热爆 Radio 3

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