Sir Edward Elgar
Writer, broadcaster and charity founder Marjorie Wallace chooses composer Edward Elgar. With Humphrey Carpenter. From 2004.
Composer Sir Edward Elgar could be found on back of the Bank of England鈥檚 拢20 notes until 2010.
He was the man who claimed that his pet rabbit wrote songs with him - and also sent a little girl out with a butterfly net to catch notes for his next composition.
Marjorie Wallace, founder of the campaigning charity 'SANE', loves Elgar's music but suggests that to achieve its sublime beauty he had to struggle all his life against depression and despair.
Joining presenter Humphrey Carpenter for this investigation of the 'Enigma' man is Elgar's biographer Jerrold Northrop-Moore.
Producer: Peter Everett
First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in November 2004.
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