Post by Tease'n'SeizePost by Nicholas D. RichardsGoing round and round in my mind is the voice of a BBC War correspondent
(actually he was Australian with a voice to match) who after he retired
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What was his name?
Rene Cutforth?
That is the fella. Thank you.
I had not realised that he was British and had retired to Australia.
His voice keeps going through my mind particularly from one Sunday
night, when I was a child or teenager listening to the BBC Home Service.
He was on the radio describing some of his experiences and deprivations
as a prisoner of war. These deprivations were nothing as to those that
the Russian prisoners of war experienced in the next door camp. And yet,
they sang, in particular 'Stenka Razin'. At which point he faded to a
Russian male voice choir singing Stenka Razin.
I was already familiar with Stenka Razin from my grandmother. Granny
did not even have a radio, she did not like listening, probably because
her English never was good enough. One day I was sat at the piano
playing and singing the 'Carnival is Over' from sheet music. Granny
came into the room singing in Russian. I had never thought she would
know a pop song, of course she was not singing a pop song.
I love what The Seekers did with the Springfield adaptation, but Stenka
Razin sung by a Russian male voice choir is something else. That nice
(sarcasm) Mr Putin is tarnishing the name and memory of those prisoners
of war.
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