Originally founded as the BBC Theatre Orchestra. It is the only one of the five BBC orchestras which is not a full-scale symphony one.
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BBC Concert Orchestra
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Golders Green Hippodrome
Hippodrome Theatre, Golders Green home of the BBC Concert Orchestra, 1969 - 2...
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Charles Dibdin
Dramatist, composer, writer and theatre proprietor. Employed Grimaldi at Sadler's Wells. Charles Isaac Mungo Dibdin was known professionally as Charles Pitt or Charles Dibdin the younger. Born in R...
1 memorial
Wally Fawkes
Cartoonist and clarinettist. Born in Vancouver, his family emigrated to Britain in 1931. During WW2 he started playing in jazz bands including George Webb's Dixielanders and Humphrey Lyttleton's ba...
1 memorial
Haroon Shamsher
Musician. Born in Bradford. His father was a Bangladeshi immigrant who ran a traditional tape shop in London’s East End. Haroon and his younger brother Farook, started the Joi Bangla Sound System i...
1 memorial
Jake Slee
Jake was the original drummer, in 1986, with Crazy Pink Revolvers. The previous year he had played music with Stephen Luscombe of Blancmange for the 1985 Alternative Miss World Show.For the above ...
1 memorial
Samuel Stennett, DD
Baptist minister and hymnwriter. Born Exeter. His father was appointed minister at Little Wild Street chapel from 1737 so the family moved to London. See Andrew Gifford for the rather unsavoury ...
1 memorial
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