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Television’s Dress Rehearsal

Date released

15 Apr 1946

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

46/30

NoS ID

101059

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Visit to Alexandra Palace as the BBC television cameras go into action. Windmill Theatre chorus girls are televised. Pathe shows how performers, producers, controllers, and cameramen operate to bring radioed...

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Talking to a Stranger (2015)

Director

Christopher Morahan

Producer

Michael Bakewell

Subject

Drama

BBC television drama in four episodes by John Hopkins that relates the story of a family tragedy from four viewpoints. With Judi Dench, Michael Bryant, Margery Mason and Maurice Denham. The episodes can be...

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Hamlet (1980 Radio)

Series

Prefaces to Shakespeare

In this radio programme Derek Jacobi, who played Hamlet in the BBC TV production, gives a personal introduction to the play. He examines the many interpretations of a role that has been regarded as the...

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BBC on licence fee increase (1984)

Genre

Interview

Interview with BBC Chairman Stuart Young on the increase in the TV licence fee. Male interviewer not identified.

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Sunday Supplement: interview and music programme - Ocean Sound - CD11 (1988)

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: A series of programmes with interviews and music, transmitted from 16:00 to 17:00 on Ocean Sound North. The Light FM. Presented by Adam Harding and others where mentioned. Most interviews...

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Twenty Five Years Ago

Date released

6 Nov 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1692

NoS ID

024349

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Twenty Five Years Ago. DESCRIPTION: The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the BBC Television Service, the first in the world. And Movietone, by the way, was first to supply the...

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BBC licence fee raised (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Labour MP Alex Lyon, on the financing of the BBC following a raise in the television licence fee. Male interviewer not identified.

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Pride and Prejudice TV serial concludes (1995)

Genre

Drama; Interview; News report

Report on the concluding episode of BBC television’s adapatation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice which is due to be broadcast on 29/10/95 and has captured the nation’s interest. Includes...

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Thames TV buys Dallas (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Director of Programmes for Thames Television Muir Sutherland on ITV’s purchase of the popular US television programme Dallas. Sutherland denies the company went behind the back of the BBC,...

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Parkinson says Thatcher should quit (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with former Conservative cabinet minister, Cecil Parkinson, where he advises former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to leave the House of Commons. He says this phase of her life is over and she...

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