Jubilee pageant composers condemn BBC coverage

Criticisms of BBC jubilee coverage continue as corporation gives just a few seconds' coverage to specially commissioned piecesComposers who were invited by the BBC to take part in its jubilee broadcast have condemned its coverage of the jubilee river pageant after the corporation gave just a few seconds' coverage to the musical orchestration of a poem that the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, had written especially to mark the event.Duffy, whose eight-verse poem, Common Wealth, was put to music b...

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