SWEDISH FOR VIOLIN PLAYERS
Sveriges Radio 1991
Radio inside a Violin: A gift to Jon Rose by the marketing department of WDR Cologne
  • Recorded by Paul Pignon for Swedish National Radio in 1991(?)
  • The actors, who did a great job, seem to have disappeared into the storm along with their names. An internet search reveals nothing.
  • Text and music by Jon Rose

A party of tourists are lost in a very bad storm somewhere north in Sweden, all they have to help them are a phrase book and a violin. One of the party complains that his violin has come without an instruction book, another complains that her new violin has a hole in it...

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