Julia Lang

Julia Lang

Julia Lang, born London 1921, was film and radio actress and radio presenter. She is best known for the BBC radio programme Listen with Mother. The theme music for the programme was the Berceuse from Gabriel Fauré's Dolly Suite for piano duet, Op. 56. A recording was often used but in an Anglia Television interview in the 1990s Láng said that during her tenure, when she had finished reading the story, she had to get up (noiselessly), rush across to the piano in the studio and play the Berceuse live. She married William Shine in 1942. They appeared together in the 1948 film The Red Shoes as "a balletomane" and "a balletomane's mate". Their marriage was dissolved in 1949. She had a son, Stephen. Lang died on 1 April 2010 at the age of 88 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

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