A personal favourite I never tire of listening to these interviews between Charles Richardson and Gerard Hoffnung! From the 1973 double vinyl gatefold.

Gerard Hoffnung: Artist and musician, best known for his humorous works. Raised in Germany, Hoffnung was brought to London as a boy, to escape the Nazis. Punkt Contrapunkt, The Hoffnung Interplanetary Music Festival, Concerto For Conductor and Orchestra: Movement и другие песни.

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Gerard Hoffnung (22 March 1925 – 28 September 1959) was an artist and musician, best known for his humorous works. Over the next two decades in England, he became known as a cartoonist, tuba player, impresario, broadcaster and raconteur. After training at two art colleges, Hoffnung taught for a few years, and then turned to drawing, on the staff of English and American publications, and later as a freelance.

In 1956 Hoffnung mounted the first of his "Hoffnung Festivals" in London, at which classical music was spoofed for comic effect, with contributions from many eminent musicians. As a broadcaster he appeared on BBC panel games, where he honed the material for one of his best-known performances, his speech at the Oxford Union in 1958. The Hoffnung Astronomical Music Festival (1961). The Importance of Being Hoffnung (1968). Timeless Hoffnung (1970). Hoffnung's Music Festivals (1974). The Best of Hoffnung (1974). The Hoffnung Festival of Music (1988). Hoffnung's Music Festivals (1989). Hoffnung: A Last Encore (2002).

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