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‘TED KAVANAGH, who is responsible for the scripts of "ITMA," frequently says a few words to the audience in the studio before the "ITMA" broadcasts, and these talks are often the occasion for some of his more outrageous flights of fancy. Recently, for example, Basil Cameron, the distinguished conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, was in the front row. With a perfectly straight face Kavanagh told the audience that Basil Cameron and Rae Jenkins, conductor of the BBC Variety Orchestra, had both taken musc lessons from the same _ correspondence school. As, however, Jenkins lived in a remote Welsh village where the mails were infrequent, he was always five or six lessons behind Cameron. And that is why Basil Cameron now conducts the London Symphony while Rae Jenkins has progressed no further than the BBC Variety Orchestra!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 15
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138TALL STORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 15
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