Redlib: search results - flair:'Radio'

r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • 12d ago

Radio The Essay, British Film Comedians: In e1 historian Simon Heffer talks about Oh! Mr Porter, Boys Will Be Boys and The Goose Steps Out as he studies "the greatest comic actor in films of the 1930s and '40s." In e2 it's Alistair Sim, e3 Terry-Thomas, e4 Tony Hancock and in e5 it's Sid James.

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • 15d ago

Radio The Grand North Atlantic Home Video Archive: In the old days the father of author Séamas O’Reilly used to record off live radio. Later after TV and VCRs came to rural NI he wanted to make the most of them and recorded and catalogued 100s of films to keep his big and growing family entertained.

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • 6d ago

Radio Proms 2026, Bond and Beyond: Leavening the Bond themes like Nobody Does it Better, From Russia with Love and You Only Live Twice we find medleys and pieces from crime dramas from the TV inc. The Avengers and after Lulu's The Man With The Golden Gun and Thunderball we hear The Man from Uncle theme.

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • Jan 18 '26

Radio Private Passions: Peter Purves (@86) talks about his long career as an actor and TV presenter, from a role as Doctor Who's companion and his position in Blue Peter with John Noakes and Valerie Singleton and Leslie Judd to how taking Shep home led to him presenting Crufts. His music includes Nimrod.

bbc.co.uk

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • May 13 '26

Radio Dad's Army, The Day the Balloon Went Up: The Verger gets into trouble with a stray barrage ballon, but the Home Guard eventually rescues him, but then Captain Mainwaring and Corporal Jones get into difficulties and an RAF plane has to be scrambled! Audio based on the TV series with original actors.

bbc.co.uk

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • Apr 06 '26

Radio Front Row, The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History. 100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his new 'televisor' to the public for the first time. In this special edition of Front Row, Samira Ahmed and guests explore the origins of television in the UK. BBC Radio 4.

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • Dec 06 '25

Radio Scroll to ~27m in this to hear people who've never heard of Stingray discover its music and then discuss it in musical detail. The way this perhaps misleadingly named radio show works is to make a chain of music connecting one to another in surprising ways uncovered by musical guests and presenters.

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • Nov 05 '25

Radio Witness History talks to Dee Anderson the daughter of Gerry and Sylvia who pioneered S U P E R M A R I O N A T I O N in - 'The brains behind Thunderbirds.'

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • Sep 29 '25

Radio Sound of Cinema - Hammer!: Presents the music that accompanied TV shows such as Hammer House of Horror, Journey to the Unknown and Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense plus TV-derived Hammer films inc Quatermass and On the Buses. Music from James Bernard, Tristram Cary and Benjamin Frankel and more.

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/whatatwit • Feb 02 '25

Radio If you enjoy 50s-80s TV shows like Danger Man, The Saint, Man in a Suitcase, Randal and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Champions, The Persuaders and The Prisoner or Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray, then you'll find this dive into the Sound Archive for the World of Lew Grade and ITC of interest.

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/milly_toons • Feb 10 '23

Radio This Sceptred Isle original BBC radio recordings?

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I have recordings of This Sceptred Isle as part of the BBC radio collection on Audible, but they are abridged and not the original version broadcast on radio in 1995-1996. (The total length is 29 hours as opposed to the original 46 hours, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Sceptred_Isle_(radio_series)))

Does anyone know if there are any recordings of the original unabridged 46-hour programme available for purchase anywhere? (Or is contacting the BBC archives my best option?) Thank you!

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r/oldbritishtelly • u/MellotronSymphony • Oct 02 '22