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So: you had a bad day?

13/12/2015 by Katy Leave a comment

When I was still at school, my parents introduced me to the work of one of the funniest comedians I have yet discovered: the Danish pianist, Victor Borge. From phonetic punctuation to his re-singing of the entirety of The Magic Flute, Borge had the most superb sense of comic timing,

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‘Britain’s most versatile pianist’, 1954

03/08/2014 by Katy 9 comments

This week, I’m delighted to be able to write about something that, like so many interesting things, I came across completely by chance whilst at the British Library. I’ve been reading through back issues of The Stage magazine from the 1950s, and in hunting down reviews, my eye was caught

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