Errollyn Wallen
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Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, where the composer Errollyn Wallen chooses to do much of her writing. Errollyn tells Sara how she loves working in the non-descript teaching rooms and imagines the ghosts of the building's naval history.
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