I was recently able to help a personal friend and a follow Forumista with queries concerning, respectively, a performance of 'Noye's Fludde' in which he had participated as a schoolboy in 1971 and a programme, with Japanese subtitles, first broadcast on BBC 2 in 1971, of English music interspersed with sequences in which Richard Baker interviewed Sir Adrian Boult. In the former case, my enquiries led to the discovery of a short video film which seems to include a clip relating to the rehearsal of the Britten. In both cases I was able to provide full details of the broadcast in question, including the date and time of original transmission.
This was all possible with the help of the BBC Genome, which contains digitized 'Radio Times' details of broadcasts between 1923 and 2009. Obviously, the chances of ending up with the broadcast in question increase with the amount of detail you have available - composer, performer, month or year if known, and radio or TV channel if known.
This was all possible with the help of the BBC Genome, which contains digitized 'Radio Times' details of broadcasts between 1923 and 2009. Obviously, the chances of ending up with the broadcast in question increase with the amount of detail you have available - composer, performer, month or year if known, and radio or TV channel if known.
) who feels a need to correct all the misdigitisations on the page - but I correct the misplacement of books in libraries and bookshops, and the weights in the gym that have been hung on the wrong hook (not the very heavy ones, obviously).
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