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Disappearance of Glenn Miller (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report

A look back at jazz musician Glenn Miller’s mysterious disappearance after his plane crashed in December 1944. Speakers include: author Martin Bowman; a 60 year-old Connie Richards, whose photographer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Steve Jones show (1988)

Genre

Interview

Steve Jones interviews British jazz musician, Acker Bilk, about a new recording of his biggest hit, Stranger on the Shore, with the North Skelton BSC Teeside Band, released to coincide with the Australian...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

The Footwarmer: interview with jazz musician George Melly (1984)

The Footwarmer: interview with jazz musician George Melly; presented by Tim Colwell on 23.04.1984 [Easter Monday]. His real name: Alan George Heywood Melly, born 17 August 1926, is an English jazz and blues...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Michael Parkinson show (1991)

Genre

Interview

Michael Parkinson interviews on his show comedian and writer, Spike Milligan, following the publication of his latest volume of autobiography, entitled Peace Work, which deals with his demobbing from the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Count Basie on his band (1979)

Genre

Interview

Keith Howell talks to musician Count Basie about his band and the relationship with the other members and his upcoming 75th birthday.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lord Gowrie on arts funding (1985)

Genre

Interview

Minister for the Arts, Lord Gowrie (Alexander Ruthven, or Grey Gowrie) on funding for arts organisations and his delight at receiving a donation from jazz musician John Dankworth. Male interviewer not...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Steve Jones show (1988)

Genre

Interview

Preview of new recording, Only for One Night, by British jazz musician Courtney Pine, who speaks at length to Steve Jones. Pine discusses his influences - Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hugh Masekela on life and times and South Africa (1989)

Genre

Interview; Music

Lesley Judd is joined on LBC Crown FM by Hugh Masekela, the South African trumpeter, his music is a heady mix of American jazz and South African rhythms and tonal patterns-township music as he calls it. He...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

John Dankworth on The Stables (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with jazz musician John Dankworth? on The Stables, an entertainment and musical training venue in Wavendon, Milton Keynes, which has been saved by an Arts Council business incentive scheme. He...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sunday Supplement: interview and music programme - Ocean Sound - CD61 (1989)

The CDs from No. 54 to 74, are Sunday Supplements presented by Amanda Ware, single tracks. Either the tapes have been edited, or the programmes ran without commercial breaks. The transmission time is changed...

ILR South Radio Online Audio