The Snowman<\/em>. What scares me is that if we have an arrangement that mocks it and sounds silly, it will take a great deal of pleasure away from the world. I don\u2019t approve of this arrangement.\u2019<\/p>\nBlake stressed that he wasn\u2019t disgruntled by the fact that the original orchestral parts had been vocalised \u2013 it was the way they had been arranged that concerned him. \u2018I\u2019ve agreed to literally thousands of arrangements, but this one I don\u2019t think is a good idea.<\/p>\n
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The BBC said it was \u2018a great shame\u2019 to remove the programme from its Christmas schedules, a decision the corporation made \u2018in line with Mr Blake\u2019s wishes.\u2019<\/p>\n
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