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RAKE’S PROGRESS

Date released

Mar 1959

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

346038

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: New German tunnelling machinery brings life to a long disused pit. NCB Commentary - Brynlliw Colliery, abandoned in 1927 as uneconomic, is to live again. Reconstruction going on since 1954 is...

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Too Good to Burn or SPEAKING THROUGH COAL

Date released

Dec 1959

Series name

Mining Review 13th Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

346069

Story no

3 / 4

NoS synopsis: a look at Welsh anthracite and its use as one of the most important materials in telephones (carbon granules) NCB Commentary - From the anthracite pits of Wales comes the most important...

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NEW SLANT

Date released

Nov 1959

Series name

Mining Review 13th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

346065

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: a diesel railway solves the problem of getting coal from a new Welsh mine set in a valley too narrow to hold its surface installations NCB Commentary - In the narrow and beautiful Vale of Neath...

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STOCKS FOR WATTS

Date released

Jan 1960

Series name

Mining Review 13th Year

Issue no

5

NoS ID

346072

Story no

2 / 4

NoS synopsis: the storing of coal for the new power station being built at High Marnham in Nottinghamshire which will be the largest electricity generating station in Britain (1,000MW) NCB Commentary -...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1955 Radio)

Producer

R. D. Smith

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy produced by R. D. Smith with music by Carl Orff. Robert Harris stars as Oberon, Charles Leno is Bottom. The Ambrosian Singers and New Symphony Orchestra are...

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Northamptonshire - Steel Town

Date released

Feb 1966

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

346320

Story no

3 / 3

NoS synopsis: Corby, a steel town which uses coal in many ways. NCB Commentary - Coal for industry. Coal for the home. Coal on the move. Nearly a million and a half tons a year for this one steel plan in...

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Shakespeare Night [31/05/1924] (1924 Radio)

Radio programme comprised of songs from or inspired by Shakespeare’s plays and a performance of a scene from Romeo and Juliet. From 21:00-21:10 Gilbert Bailey (baritone) sings songs from Twelfth Night:"O...

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London & Denbyshire - Big Show

Date released

Sep 1965

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

346304

Story no

4 / 4

NoS synopsis: Delegates from the international mining congress visit the Board’s Central Engineering Establishment. NCB Commentary - To London’s Olympia this summer came the world’s mining experts to...

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Yorkshire - NEW HEADQUARTERS

Date released

Dec 1966

Series name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

346354

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: Part of the Board’s new Headquarters at Coal House, Doncaster, into which some of the Coal Board’s staff are moving. NCB Commentary - This is Brodsworth Colliery, one of the 75 long-life...

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Twelfth Night (1958 Radio)

Director

Peter Hall

Producer

Peter Dews

Radio recording of Peter Hall’s stage production of the play at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. Adapted and produced for broadcasting by Peter Dews, starring Dorothy Tutin as...

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