Tag: BBC Home Service
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15th January 1963 – The Dancing Partner broadcast (BBC Home Service)
Although Ron Grainger composed the theme tune for this anthology series and the RWS provided “special effects” it seems there was no collaboration with him in this case.
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16th October 1960 – Children’s Hour: Phra The Phoenician broadcast (Home Service)
Desmond Briscoe with a fanfare for “A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold”. The book’s full title is The Wonderful Adventures of Phra The Phoenician from 1883.
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3rd October 1960 – Music for Party Political Conferences broadcast (BBC tv)
Also known as Time Beat, Maddalena Fagandini’s rhythm track had slightly less ‘fab’, and rather more obscure, origins.
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19th May 1958 – The Ocean broadcast (BBC Home Service)
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“Leo McKern and Jack MacGowran in ‘ THE OCEAN’”. Adapted for radio from a novel by James Hanley. The radio script and production were by Donald McWhinnnie who wrote in the Radio Times “The attempt to re-interpret Hanley’s vision has been one of my most exciting radio experiences and I hope that the sound-complex you…