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Dinnington Colliery Band's appearance on 'A Band for Britain' has had the critics putting pen to paper in the press...

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Friday, 12 March 2010

        

The recent appearance of Dinnington Colliery Band on the BBC television programme ‘A Band for Britain’ led to whole host of critics putting pen to paper.

Here are just a few of them from various sources:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/mar/09/a-band-for-britain-dispatches

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/TV-review-DispatchesA-Band-for.6133598.jp

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/entertainment/TV-Review-Band-Britain/article-1897528-detail/article.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-television--dispatches-cameron-uncovered-channel-4-a-band-for-britain-bbc2-1918306.html

The next episode of the programme takes place at 9.00pm on Monday evening on BBC 2.

        

TAGS: Dinnington Colliery

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