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Porgy and Bess: the world tour

How George Gershwin’s African-American opera was performed across the world in the 1950s, from London to Rio, Cairo to Moscow. Alan Woods tells the story of the tour through the recordings, costumes and posters in the Ohio State University archive.

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project