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- BFI identifier11398
- Date1977-11-03 (Television)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisDocumentary paying tribute to BBC Radio Features 1936-1964. (Synopsis) A look at "the short happy life of radio features" at the BBC. Uses interviews, archive footage, photos, documentation and radio extracts to relate the history of BBC radio features and to point up their decline through a conflict between the commitment of the broadcasters and the intervention and control of management. Extracts from radio features include: FLIES SO-CALLED (1958) THE WAY WE LIVE NOW (1962) UNDER MILK WOOD (1953) ONE EYE WILD (1961) WOOL (1938) HARRY HOPEFUL (1936) SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA (1939) JUNCTION X (1944) THE GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS (1951) IN PARENTHESIS THE BIG HEWER: Radio Ballads Series (1961) THE DARK TOWER (1946) Also extracts from the WAR REPORT Series; and film footage from VOICES OF BRITAIN by John Grierson, DIARY FOR TIMOTHY and LISTEN TO BRITAIN by Humphrey Jennings, and A CITY SPEAKS, by Paul Rotha. (NFA Catalogue)
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Pure Radio (Original)
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Work - 11398 - 1977-11-03 (Television)
United Kingdom - TV - Non Fiction
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