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Jill Balcon

1925-2009 GB, Westminster
Spoken Word and Children's Music
A.k.a. Jill Angela Henriette Balcon

English film and radio actress, born 3 January 1925 in London, England, UK, died 18 July 2009 in London, England, UK. She was married to Cecil Day Lewis and is the mother of Daniel Day-Lewis.

     
Genres
  • Spoken Word
  • Children's Music
Popular Tracks   
Manfred: Part I on Ghostly Poetry by Richard Burton
Sweet Dancer on Poems by W.B. Yeats: Spoken According to His Own Direction and Poems for Several Voices by Various Artists
Thomas Hardy: Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard on Poems by W.B. Yeats: Spoken According to His Own Direction and Poems for Several Voices by Various Artists
The Curse of Cromwell on Poems by W.B. Yeats: Spoken According to His Own Direction and Poems for Several Voices by Various Artists
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo on Poems by W.B. Yeats: Spoken According to His Own Direction and Poems for Several Voices by Various Artists
Robert Graves: A Frosty Night on Poems by W.B. Yeats: Spoken According to His Own Direction and Poems for Several Voices by Various Artists
Lord Tennyson: The Brook on Anthology of English Verse, Vol. 1: Read by Jill Balcon, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, John Glen, Christopher Hassall, etc. by Various Artists
Manfred: Part II on Ghostly Poetry by Richard Burton
Manfred: Part III on Ghostly Poetry by Richard Burton
John Keats: Old Meg on Anthology of English Verse, Vol. 1: Read by Jill Balcon, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, John Glen, Christopher Hassall, etc. by Various Artists

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Discography
Title Artist Year Type
AenidVirgil Read By Paul Scofield With Jill Balcon & Toby Stephens2002Album
Early Victorian PoetryGeorge Meredith / Charlotte Brontë & Emily Brontë / John Clare / Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read By Jill Balcon / Freda Dowie / Ian Holm / Gary Watson1968Album
What Passing BellJill Balcon / Hugh Burden / Michael Hordern / Cecil Day Lewis / John Stride / Gary Watson / Patrick Wymark1964Album
Just So Stories By Rudyard Kipling Read By Bill Balcon Robert Speaight (Volume Two)Rudyard Kipling Read By Jill Balcon, Robert Speaight1962Album
Anthology Of English Verse (Volume 1)Jill Balcon, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley1961Album
The Golden Treasury Of Children's Verse (Volume I)Jill Balcon, Robert SpeaightAlbum
Just So Stories By Rudyard Kipling, Vol. IRudyard Kipling Read By Jill Balcon and Robert SpeaightAlbum
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