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Pacific Odyssey in an interview with Rory Johnston on Music Now on the BBC World Service, 15 January 1986. An extended version of this including Fanshawe’s recordings and a movement of an intermezzo is on You Tube. Johnston also recorded a discussion in depth with
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who tutored him in the piano even after he left the school in 1959. He started his adult career as a musician and film editor for a small production company in
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