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Shakespeare Songs (1941 Radio)

Series

Music of Britain, The

Radio programme comprised of Shakespeare songs conducted by Trevor Harvey and sung by the BBC singers. The songs include: Who is Sylvia? (German) Ye spotted snakes (Geoffrey Shaw) Sigh no more, ladies (E. J....

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Syczyglowice

Date released

Dec 1967

Series name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

346392

Story no

1 / 4

NoS synopsis: Szczyglowice, a new colliery in Poland, is more a community than just a mine NCB Commentary - In Poland they’re still opening new mines. Syczyglowice is already turning out 600 tons a day and...

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Shakespeare Evening [08/11/1923] (1923 Radio)

aka: Shakespeare Programme

Radio programme. Members of The British Empire Society perform scenes from Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and one extract from Hamlet. The transmission of these extracts is alternated with the following...

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BUT ONCE A YEAR

Date released

Feb 1957

Series name

Mining Review 10th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

345945

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: A Christmas party for miners’ children NCB Commentary - Christmas in the mining community is a family festival. Here, at a Welfare Institute near St. Helens, mine workers and Union officials...

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COAL BIRDS

Date released

Jun 1963

Series name

Mining Review 16th Year

Issue no

10

NoS ID

346210

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: the prize-winning pigeons owned by Jack Bramley, a deputy at Derbyshire’s Woodside Colliery, are "coal-fired". NCB Commentary - From a Dutch living room to the living room of Mr. & Mrs Jack...

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SHOTFIRER

Date released

Apr 1958

Series name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

345996

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: underground worker Charlie Swann, ace pigeon shooter, combines sport with useful service to local farmers by shooting unwanted pigeons NCB Commentary - Past Shireoaks Colliery, where he works,...

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FRED’S PITCH

Date released

Oct 1962

Series name

Mining Review 16th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346187

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: the function of coal in the manufacture of carpets at a factory at Brighouse, Yorkshire. NCB Commentary - Near this spot, Robin Hood died. His bows were made from a tree in nearby Hartshead...

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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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AVENUE

Date released

Sep 1956

Series name

Mining Review 10th Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

345928

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: the coke and by-product plant near Chesterfield. Preview of the Coal Board’s largest Coking and By-Products Plant, outside Chesterfield NCB Commentary - Three miles out of Chesterfield the...

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Radio 4's 'Life and Fate' by Vasily Grossman

Date

19 Sep 2011, 17:31

Author

Cathy Grant

Post Type

Post

The BBC has just begun an eight-hour dramatisation of the epic Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. This epic masterpiece, centred around the bloody battle of Stalingrad, charts the fate of both a...

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