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Pure Radio (Original title)
Date: 03 November 1977 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

[Director]: Philip Donnellan

Synopsis: Documentary 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.

Genre:
Documentary

Subjects:
BBC, Radio broadcasting, World War II, Blitz, BBC Radio

Series title:

TV Transmissions
Date: 03 November 1977Broadcast channel: BBC1Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:15-23:15Runtime: 57 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 03 November 1977not specified

Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (3)
In: Radio Times v217 n2819 19 Nov 1977  Page: 78
Title: [Radio Times - v217 n2819 19 Nov 1977: no known title]Language: English

In: Screen Digest December 1977
Title: [Screen Digest - December 1977: no known title]Language: English

In: Screen Digest December 1977  Page: 236
Title: [Screen Digest - December 1977: no known title]Language: English
Description: Listed.