BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein 1902 to 1979 - 1895 to 1960

Show Souvenirs
5 October 1958 Light Programme
Oscar Hammerstein talks to Humphrey Burton about

	his collaboration with Richard Rodgers 0 min 58
	his initial interest in writing straight plays, moving onto writing musicals 1 min 14
	how he approaches his work 0 min 57

Audio Archive
13 November 1968 BBC
Richard Rodgers talks to Geoffrey Millais about

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	Rodgers and Hammerstein American composer and librettist Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein began their collaboration in 1943, the result was Oklahoma!, winning a Pulitzer prize and signalling the beginning of "the musical play" as a genre. Read more