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Lionel Bart

Lionel Bart has been played on NTS shows including Jonny Trunk Plays God, with May A Man Be Merry? first played on 20 November 2017.

Bart was born Lionel Begleiter the youngest of seven surviving children in East London to Galician Jews, and grew up in Stepney. His father worked as a tailor in a garden shed in London E1. The family had escaped the pogroms in Galicia which was then part of the Austrian Empire.

Lionel later changed his name to Bart derived from the name of the silk screen printing firm he and John Gorman[1] created ("G & B Arts", for Gorman and Begleiter)…

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Part Three - The Seeker
Lionel Bart
Deram1968
Part Three - The Seeker
Lionel BartDeram1968
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May A Man Be Merry?
Lionel Bart
Deram1968
May A Man Be Merry?
Lionel BartDeram1968
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