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  1. Show business at War

    Date released
    4 Oct 1943
    Series name
    The March of Time 9th Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352235
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: For forty years an industry which has lain close to the hearts and pockets of the American people is show-business. Dozens of periodicals supplement the press columns specially...

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  2. Upbeat in Music

    Date released
    20 Mar 1944
    Series name
    The March of Time 9th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    352239
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: Troops march off to the spirited new style marches of Captain Glen Miller’s Army Air Force Band. Men on leave and their sweethearts crowd around Benny Goodman’s bandstand....

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  3. Embers (1976)

    Director
    David R Clark
    Producer
    Katharine Worth
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution

    The radio play by Samuel Beckett.

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  4. Invasion from Mars: Or How Orson Welles Panicked a Nation (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    On 30 October 1938, the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre group enacted a version, by Howard Koch, of H.G. Wells, novel ‘War of the Worlds’. It was transmitted live at 8pm standard time throughout the USA on...

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  5. Troposcatter (1983)

    Director
    Chris Georgiou
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

    Discusses offshore communications explaining the principle of troposcatter, discovered in 1933 by Marconi, which bounces radio waves off the troposphere, the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere. The...

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  6. Words and Music, By Samuel Beckett (1973 Audio)

    Director
    David R Clark
    Producer
    Katharine Worth
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 25 min.

    Samuel Beckett’s work for radio, with music specially written for this performance by Humphrey Searle, and played by the Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer.

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  7. Atomic Energy

    Date released
    1963
    Series name
    British Calendar
    Issue no
    61
    NoS ID
    323786
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: This edition deals with atomic energy, from the first splitting of the atom to the nuclear power stations of today. It features: the opening of Bradwell and Berkeley atomic power stations by...

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  8. H.G. Wells: The Spoken Word (2006)

    Subject
    Broadcasting; History; Literature; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 73 minutes), £10.00

    This CD makes available for the first time all the surviving BBC radio broadcasts of H.G. Wells. The earliest dates from 1931, by which time Wells was already in his sixties and a renowned public figure,...

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  9. Birth of Swing

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    352513
    Story no
    3 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: Everyone has heard of "swing". Its enthusiasts range from high-browed intellectuals to the messenger boys in the streets, and many are the heated arguments as to what it is and...

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  10. W.H. Auden: The Spoken Word (2007)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 131 minutes), £16.00

    A 2-CD set of surviving BBC radio broadcasts of W.H. Auden, released to commemorate the centenary of the poet’s birth. Features sleeve notes by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate. The two discs feature Auden in...

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