Radio review: Satchmo by Satchmo

Louis Armstrong's home recordings made for an unusual, but fascinating, hour of radioIt would be, presenter Paul Sexton promised, "a very unusual hour on Radio 2". And so it was, with Satchmo by Satchmo, a programme filled with home recordings made by Louis Armstrong.The unusual element was that the focus wasn't his music, though we heard some of that. Instead, it was all about his extraordinary voice, his words and anecdotes, captured on reel-to-reel home tapes that he used to record things fo...

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