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DISNEY AND STAGE LEGEND TOMMY STEELE IS CELEBRATED
This week on BBC Radio, you can stream a free one-hour special honoring the legendary entertainer Tommy Steele, who among many other triumphs starred in the London, Broadway (with John Cleese) and movie versions of Half a Sixpence; Walt Disney's last film, The Happiest Millionaire, and Francis Ford Coppola's only musical, Finian's Rainbow with Fred Astaire and Petula Clark.
You can listen to the program here for the next five days.
Tommy Steele (far right) with Gladys Cooper, Lesley Ann Warren, Fred MacMurray, Geraldine Page, John Davidson and Walt Disney on the set of The Happiest Millionaire.
Also this week on BBC Radio:
The Night the Animals Talked (2 days left to listen)
Jack and the Genetically Modified Beanstalk (2 days left to listen)
The White Christmas Story
Martin Sheen narrates a one-hour documentary about Irving Berlin's beloved song (2 days left to listen).
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (4 days left to listen)
The Beatles' Christmas (5 days left to listen)
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be: The Lionel Bart Story
Five-part bio of the composer/lyricist of "Oliver!"
Christopher Lee's Fireside Tales
Five 15-minute stories.
Aesop's Fables
Adapted from the stage production by Michael Morpurgo (War Horse) (7 days left to listen).
Yeti's Finger
What does Jimmy Stewart have to do with the abominable snowman?
The Adventures of Tintin (2 episodes left)
PLEASE NOTE: Some BBC Radio programming contains material intended for mature audiences.
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL RADIO PANEL ON "TV CONFIDENTIAL"
The weekly radio show about television, past and present, TV Confidential, is devoting its second hour this week to TV specials and holiday episodes of TV shows.
I'll be on the panel with author Joanna Wilson, actors Tony Figueroa and Donna Allen Figueroa and host Ed Robertson. The show plays on various stations throughout the country this week and will land in the podcast next Wednesday.
Here is the broadcast schedule:
WROM Radio
Sunday 12/25
8pm ET, 5pm PT
Share-a-Vision Radio
KSAV.org
Friday 12/23
7pm ET, 4pm PT
10pm ET, 7pm PT
The Coyote KWTY-FM
Ridgecrest, Calif.
Sunday 12/25
10pm PT
Monday 12/27
1am ET
InternetVoicesRadio.com
Tuesday 12/27
11:05pm ET, 8:05pm PT
The podcast of this episode will appear on Wednesday 12/28 and can be subscribed to at itunes or by clicking here.
GREG INTERVIEW ON "TV CONFIDENTIAL"
Staring tonight, various stations are airing an episode of TV Confidential in which my own self is interviewed about Disney music and Mouse Tracks.
InternetVoicesRadio.com
Tuesday 11/15
12:05am ET / 9:05pm PT
It will then become available for listening on demand at TVConfidential.net and as beginning Wednesday 11/16.
All the episodes of TV Confidential are also available for download on iTunes.
NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY IS FRIDAY
Yes, a great, tasty, delicious tradition continues. Stop in and get a free doughnut and REJOICE at its wondrous fantasticality!
More info here.
D23 EXPO UPDATE: JUST LIKE THE OSCARS
This morning there was a Disney/Touchstone/Miramax movie preview hosted by Dick Cook with appearances by Tim Burton, Jerry Bruckheimer, Robert Zemeckis, John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Miley Cyrus (singing "The Climb"), The Muppets (doing parodies of "Cruella DeVille" and "Prince Ali" as well as the finale version of "The Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie.
And Johnny Depp...as Captain Jack Sparrow.
Nice presentations all day, about Disney Theme Park music (with Bruce Brougton and Joel McNeely) and the Toy Story Musical (with Valerie Vigoda and Brendan Milburn) and tonight, it's Saludos Amigos and The Shaggy Dog.
D23 AND ME...AND A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE
Just in case you haven't heard, the first-ever D23 Expo starts this Thursday at the Anaheim Convention Center. D23 (which gets its name from the year the Walt Disney Studio officially opened in 1923) is the first corporate-driven Disney fan organization.
L'il ol' me is doing the fabled multi-media presentation FROM ANNETTE TO MILEY: HOW DISNEY POP CHANGED THE WORLD, through the courtesy of Walt Disney Records. It's on Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
If you're planning to be in the area, please stop by!
Nice interview on Mouse Clubhouse site
Scott Wolf was kind enough to do this interview at his excellent website. Also check out the other interviews, many with personalities we haven't heard much from lately. It's definitely a great site to bookmark.
Podcast and Review Now on MousePlanet.com
The folks at MousePlanet were nice enough to inteview Greg about MOUSE TRACKS and lots of other Disney subjeccts on their podcast, plus Mark Goldhaber wrote a thoughtful review on their acclaimed site.
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