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
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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
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
Credits
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Production Company: BBC, Executive Producer: Barrie Gavin, Produced by: Philip Donnellan, Research: Amina Harris, Written by: Philip Donnellan, Script Consultant: David Lytton, Film Cameraman: Ken Morgan, Graphic Design: Bob Blagden, Editor: John Bland, 'War Report' Drawings by: Michael Barsley, Sound Recordist: John Bland, Dubbing Mixer: David Baumber, Film Source ('Voice of Britain'): BBC, Film Source ('Diary for Timothy'): Central Office of Information, Film Source ('Listen to Britain'): Central Office of Information, Film Source ('A City Speaks'): Manchester Corporation, Film Source: Imperial War Museum, British Movietonews
Cast
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Philip Donnellan, Michael Cochrane, David Lytton, Frank Duncan, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Gretta Gouriet, John Sharp, Carleton Hobbs, Alan Burgess, Nigel Lambert, Helen Fry, Mary Wimbush, R.D. Smith, John Pierce, John Francis Dillon, Hugh Sykes, D.G. Bridson, Sue Thacker, Michael Barsley, Norman Turner, Molly Glasgow, Alan Ward, Charles Parker, Geoff Wooldridge, Douglas Cleverdon, Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Marius Goring (radio extracts)