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- ↑ James Helme Sutclifee. Germany - Lockhart conducts 'The Yeomen'. Opera , February 1973, Vol.24 No.2 p163-4.
- ↑ "Desert Island Discs – Castaway : James Lockhart". BBC Online . BBC. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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