To celebrate the launch of her new biography: Dweller in Shadows | Princeton University Press, writer and broadcaster Kate Kennedy discusses writing the complex and tragic life of poet and composer Ivor Gurney with musicologist Stephen Johnson and mezzo Sarah Connolly, who will sing some of Gurney's best-loved songs.

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Kate Kennedy | writer & broadcaster
Stephen Johnson | musicologist
Sarah Connolly | mezzo
Simon Over | piano

 

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