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An Airy Farewell

Date released

19 Nov 1945

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1536

NoS ID

039785

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Radio comics speak at farewell lunch to John Watt, BBC Variety Director.

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75 Years of the BBC (1997 Audio)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Compact disc. 110 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (+p&p) (CD)

A celebration of 75 years of BBC Radio, containing programme extracts selected with a view to capturing not only the history but also the essence of the period. Includes the first-ever broadcast, the General...

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Henry IV. Part 1 (1979 Radio)

Series

Prefaces to Shakespeare

Producer

Alan Wilding

A personal introduction to the play and its characters by Michael Redgrave.

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BBC Radio Course

Date released

1970

Series name

London Line

Issue no

300

NoS ID

326537

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We Must Remember

Date released

7 Jan 1946

Series name

World Pictorial News

Issue no

244

NoS ID

156486

Story no

4 / 4

Men of the Australian Eighth Division, former prisoners in Singapore, are repatriated by air transport. Arriving in Sydney, some are united with their families. 50,000 people cheer them as they arrive....

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John Gielgud at the BBC (2000 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 180 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

Extracts of John Gielgud’s radio performances, collected from the BBC Archive. Includes ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ with Edith Evans, ‘Arms and the Man’, ‘Richard II’, ‘Measure for...

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Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999 Audio)

aka: Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letter from America’ Vol 3

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 160 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A specially compiled collection including interviews and ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts, charting the career of journalist Alistair Cooke. Introduced by Nick Clarke, Cooke’s biographer.

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Forty Years on (2000 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 95 min. 2 compact discs. 95 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive) audiocassette 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) CD

Alan Bennett stars in a radio production of his satirical comedy ‘Forty Years On’ (1968). The plot concerns a soon-to-retire headmaster who attempts to bestow his nostalgia-ridden influence on the...

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Vintage Archers (3 Parts) (1988 Audio)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 6 audiocassettes. 3 x 145 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive) each 2001 sale: £22.50 (inclusive) set

Three two-audiocassette packs containing collected excerpts from ‘The Archers’ radio serial drama, which was first broadcast on 1 January 1951. 1 (1988): These early episodes set the scene for the...

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Jrr Tolkein: An Audio Portrait (2001 Audio)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 110 min. 2 compact discs. 110 min., 2001 audiocassette sale: £9.99 (inclusive) 2001 CD sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

An audio portrait of JRR Tolkein (1892-1973) examining both Tolkein the man and the worlds he created. Brian Sibley, one of the dramatists of the BBC Radio 4 production of ‘Lord of the Rings’, draws...

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