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About Treasure Hunt
List of Audio Finds (November 2001) |
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These are recordings that have been recovered, researched and
transferred. They have come from a number of sources; mostly off-air
domestic recordings both from individuals with a few reels and
collectors with hundreds of recordings. Some are BBC recordings from
former members of staff and contributors.
Quality is variable
ranging from research only to acceptable broadcast quality.
Drama
Man and Superman 16-08-65
Robert Hardy & Fenella Fielding star in this production of
George Bernard Shaw�s play
The Doctor's Dilemma 7-3-66
By George Bernard Shaw, starring Alec McCowen & Maurice
Denham
Bajazet 9-1-72
By Racine with Barbara Jefford, Prunella Scales & Martin
Jarvis
Peribanez and the Commendador of Ocana 3/8/68
By Lope de Vegar, with Trader Faulkner & Rosalind
Shanks
School for Wives 21/1/73
By Moliere, with Geoffrey Bayldon
Showing Up of Blanco Posnet 16-7-63
By G.B. Shaw, with William Sylvester
Their Very Own and Golden City 9-12-68
By Arnold Wesker, with Carleton Hobbs
Naked ("Vestiri Illie Inuli") 27-4-70
By Pirandello, with Stephen Murray & Susannah York
She Stoops to Conquer TX Date unknown
By Oliver Goldsmith, with Alastair Sim & Brenda de
Banzie
Fanny's First Play 17-9-66
By G.B. Shaw, with Dilys Laye & Timothy West
The Spanish Tragedy 2-3-69
By Thomas Kydd, with John Laurie
Prometheus Bound 3-7-70
By Aeschylus, with Peter Woodthorpe
Ubu Unchained 26-7-68
By Alfred Jarry, with Norman Shelley
The Rules of the Game 7-7-67
By Pirandello, with Robert Harris, Anthony Jacobs & Nicolette
Bernard.
The Quare Fellow 22-9-69
By Brendan Behan, with players from the Arts Theatre, Lyric
Theatre & Ulster Theatre Company, Belfast.
The Devil's Disciple 5-10-69
By G.B. Shaw, with Keith Michell & Max Adrian
The Caretaker 29-9-69
by Harold Pinter, with Bill Fraser, Michael Harbour & Nigel
Anthony
Anybody Here Seen Friday? 11-10-61
A sound portrait of a Dublin childhood adapted by Dominic Behan
from his autobiographical novel Terms of Times and Happy
Returns
Something Strange 6-2-62
A play for radio by Kingsley Amis with Noel Johnson, Brian Wilde
and Nerys Hughes
The Happy Couple 21-5-69
A production of W. Somerset Maughan�s play starring Carleton
Hobbs and Jean Anderson
What Killed Goliath? 5-5-61
Play with Leo McKern as Goliath.
Comedy and Light Entertainment
I�m Sorry, I�ll Read That Again 25-10-65
An edition of the "radio custard pie" with Tim Brooke-Taylor,
John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall & Bill
Oddie.
Hancock�s Half Hour
4 editions not previously in the Archive starring Tony Hancock
with Sid James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. Most
have come from individual collectors. We had multiple copies of some
HHHs which have been circulating in collectors circles for years. We
compared quality and rejected some as of too poor. These represent
the best quality we received and may benefit from further audio
restoration.
The Bolshoi Ballet Series 4 episode 2 (21-10-56).
Anna & The King of Siam Series 4 episode 7
(25-11-56).
Around The World in Eighty Days Series 5 episode 8 (11-3-58)
The Election Candidate Series 5 episode 10 (25-3-58).
Peter Sellers Estate Collection
CD copies acquired from the Estate of Peter Sellers by
Entertainment Radio BBC and Information and Archives for Steve
Doherty�s R4 series on Sellers 2001. Some of this material has
already been broadcast. Famously a lover of things technical Sellers
recorded his own broadcasts to 78 rpm disc using home equipment. He
recorded just his own performances from variety shows or got his
mother to do it if it was live. Includes Sellers� first TV
appearance 3/5/49 and first billed appearance on radio�s Starlight
Hour 13/12/48. Collection includes private recordings. Radio
highlights include
Sellers 1st TV appearence (TV soundtrack only) May 3
1948
Starlight Hour December 13 1948 - Sellers 1st "Billed"
appearence
Starlight Hour December 20 1948
Geraldo�s Open House September 15 1949
Showtime August 19 1948
Music Hall November 5 1949
Ray�s a Laugh July 3 1949
Starlight Hour November 22 1948
Music Hall April 5 1949
Starlight Hour November 8 1948
Variety Bandbox September 19 1948
Ignorance is Bliss July 2 1949
Parsley Sidings
4 editions of the Radio 2 comedy series starring Arthur Lowe and
Ian Lavender set around a railway station.
Pass The Parcel (29-9-73)
A Night Out (20-10-73)
A Bird In The Hand (3-11-73)
The Secret Agent (1-12-73)
The Men From The Ministry 20-11-62
Written by Edward Taylor, starring Wilfred Hyde-White &
Richard Murdoch with guest star Betty Marsden.
I�m Sorry, I Haven�t A Clue
11-4-72 The first edition of the long-running panel game.
25-9-74 Complete edition.
Something To Shout About
5-7-60
16-8-60
A light-hearted satire on the world of advertising
written by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe and starring Michael Medwin,
Fenella Fielding, Joan Sims, Eleanor Summerfield and Warren
Mitchell
It�s A Deal 1-6-61
Starring Sid James as a property dealer. Written by Ronald Wolfe
and Ronald Chesney. A truly lost programme as no examples were in
archives at all.
It�s A Fair Cop 16-6-61
Eric Sykes stars as a blundering policeman. Written by John
Junkin and Terry Nation. A truly lost programme as no examples were
in archives at all.
The Next Programme Follows Immediately
4 editions of the anarchic comedy show from July 1971 with David
Jason & Denise Coffey
Milligna (or Your Favourite Spike) 12-26 December 1972
3 editions of Spike Milligan�s Radio 4 show from December
1972
The Secret Life of Kenneth Williams 21-7-71
One show from the Radio 4 comedy series starring Kenneth Williams
with Richard Calidcot and Josephine Tewson
Beyond Our Ken 4-1-62 & 8-2-62
Two editions of the well-know show starring Kenneth Horne with
Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Bill Pertwee and Betty Marsden
Radio Five with Eric Idle 30-3-74 to 4-5-74
Four editions of the Radio One show that combined Eric Idle�s
brand of humour with pop music.
It Sticks Our Half A Mile
A Dad�s Army radio sequel written by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles who also very successfully adapted the Dad�s Army for Radio with the same core cast.
Share and Share Alike
Series written by Harold Snoad & Michael Knowles. An �Odd
Couple� comedy featuring two chalk and cheese brothers forced to
live together by the terms of their mother�s will.
Pilot show with Reg Varney & Roy Kinnear recorded
19th January 1975 (never broadcast)
Series of 9 shows with Michael Robbins & Hugh Paddick
broadcast July - September 1978
My Music 20-5-68
A battle of wits, with music as the main
ingredient. Proceedings are overseen by chairman Steve Race.
A Night At The Music Hall 31-8-64
Bill Scott-Coomber introduces a selection of
variety acts including comedian Freddy Davis and Shirley
Abicair.
The Ronnie Corbett Thing 1970
A show from Ronnie Corbett�s Radio Two series.
Music
A�da 16-7-55
Extracts from the Third Programme broadcast of a performance of
the opera from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Features Tito
Gobbi, Ebe Stinagni and a young Joan Sutherland. Recorded off-air in
good quality by a RAF National Serviceman and electronics enthusiast
running his station music society.
Saturday Club 17-10-59
Extracts from the Light Programme�s weekly selection of music and
live guests from the pop world, introduced by Brian Matthew.
Ringo Starr: My Top Twelve 7-4-74
Former Beatle Ringo selects 12 tracks to make up an imaginary
album of his favourite music and chats about his career and future
plans with Brian Matthew. Poor quality, not suitable for broadcast
but speech content may be of some research interest.
Paul Simon Five-to-Ten Session rec. 21-1-65, tx March
1965
Paul Simon�s first recorded session in the UK. Practically
unknown in the UK, he was still to have his first big US hit with
the Paul Simon Songbook. Acting on a tip-off from a folk fan,
the BBC producer Roy Trevivian went to hear Simon and immediately
asked him to record some songs.
He was asked at short notice to
record some of his material for the religious-spiritual slot on the
Light Programme.
The Production Assistant was sent out to the Home
Office to get a work permit especially (the letter requesting the
permit is in BBC Written Archives). Nine complete tracks. Simon had
a cold at the time and the recording has an immediate, slightly raw
but authentic quality.
Elton John: Speakeasy 11-10-69
Two session tracks from Elton John�s appearance on this Radio One
show. Broadcast quality recording by a member of the original
production staff.
Tubby Hayes Quartet: Jazz Club 18-12-68 & 9-4-69
Two session recordings featuring nine tracks from the band�s
appearances on this Radio One show. Broadcast quality recording made
live in the studio for a band member.
Music While You Work: editions from 1943-1967
21 complete editions from the famous daily live music programme
which ran from 1940 to 1967. Includes a 1943 edition and the last
show on the last day of the Light Programme in 1967. Varying quality
but generally good. One short extract of the theme tune only
previously existed in the BBC. Collected by one man
mainly by recording off-air from the 1960s and acquiring from other
sources. He attended some of the last live broadcasts and has en
encylopaedic knowledge of MWYW and light music of the period. His
collection runs into hundreds of editions.
Poets of the Sixteenth Century: Ben Jonson - 17-4-68
Settings of Lyrics for Voice and Lute
Make Way For Music 23-10-59
A slice of daytime entertainment from the Light Programme with
singer Sheila Buxton accompanied by the Northern Dance Orchestra
conducted by Alan Ainsworth.
Talks, Features and Topical Material
Tuning Fork of America 17-11-61
America folk singer Pete Seeger discusses his career and plays
some of his songs.
On The Edge 13-2-63
A Charles Parker Radio Ballad. �The journey through adolesence
faced by young people in the 1960s�. Seven 14-20 year olds
interspersed with original songs by McColl and Seeger. Not excellent
quality, but social history content important.
The Last of the Gleemen: The Name is Zozimus 31-8-62
An examination of the Dublin Gleemen written by Philip Rooney and
featuring traditional songs sung by Dominic Behan.
Come Along To Freedom 15-8-61
A ballad documentary about an underground railway in America that
provided a means of escape for slaves in the 19th
century.
Sparrow: Calypsos 5-10-61
Nobel prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul selects and introduces
calypsos sung by the enigmatic singer Sparrow and reflects on their
social commentary.
The Poetry of e.e. Cummings 2-3-69
Selected and presented by Charles Tomlinson.
There�s Nothing There
Extract of a talk on the BBC Sound Archive by Archive Features
producer Madeau Stewart. Date unknown, probably early 1970s.
Addresses the complaint of Archive users who trawling through
thousands of recordings exclaim �there nothing there!�.
The Public Ear 22-3-64
A short clip from the start of this edition of the
programme, featuring a letter from a Beatles fan who wanted advance
notice of any radio appearances by the group so that other fans
could be told to switch their receivers on. The reply was read by
Ringo Starr, but this was not recorded!
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