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Now that the old Roberts radio has been replaced by BBC Sounds and podcasts, how very odd the Edwardian tones of Beatrice Harrison seem.

‘I used to wander about the garden at night, you know, with a cello. And, one night, when I’d been playing for hours, I suddenly heard the note of the most heavenly bird I’d ever heard. Next

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