BBC continuity & show fragments

[Lord Reith]

We like it fast and hard.

Oh sorry... thought I was walrusgumboot there for a moment...

[Egg_Crisis]

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BBC Radio Fragments Vol.04

1959.11.08 Minutes silence and part of a play
1959.11.08 News, Richard Murdoch plays records Just For You (Light Programme)
1959-1961 Attention All Shipping - Guilty Party (Light Programme)
1960 Church Service - Gospel For Today
1960 Concert Hour - BBC Concert Orchestra (Home Service)
1960 Midweek Reveille advert (Radio Luxembourg)
1960 Sing Something Simple (Light Programme)

1960.03.03 Jazz Club - A Decade Of Dankworth
18 minutes of a 50 min show.
Introduced by Alan Dell. Taking part were the Johnny Dankworth Orchestra, The Original 7, Cleo Laine, Frank Holder, and guests Paul Fenoulhet, Mairi Benson, Steve Race, Manny Albam & Matthias Scheiber.
- talk
- New Forest
- I'm Going To Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (with Cleo Laine)
- The Colonel's Tune
- We Are The Lambeth Boys
- Sapphire
- Introduction by Willis Conover (Newport Jazz Festival 1959.07.03)
- ?? (short clip) (Newport Jazz Festival 1959.07.03)
- talk with Manny Albam
- talk with Matthias Scheiber
- ??
- End credits

1960.09.15 Join In And Sing (Light Programme)

1960.10.14 The Blue And The Gray (Home Service)
- Written & produced by Charles Chilton. Just the final 3 minutes. This show was broadcast five times from 1955 to 1961, each broadcast being a re-performance rather than a repeat. This is from the 4th of these in 1960. In 1961 it was released on a Decca LP (maybe the LP was the music only, not the talking bits, I don't know?), and probably re-performed again rather than being taken from the broadcast audio.

1960-1961 Church Service
1961 Music
1961 National Anthem
1961.05.14 announcements - John Curle (Light Programme)
1961.06.06 News, Holliday With Strings (Light Programme)
1961.08.31 News (Home Service, 10pm)
1961.09.09 Hillbilly Hoedown - Murray Kash (Light Programme)

1961.11.xx Swingsong (with Dennis Lotis) (Light Programme)
- Dennis Lotis - ?
- Judd Proctor - Kon Tiki
- ? - [instrumental]
- Johnny Douglas introduces his pianist Ronnie Price
- Ronnie Price with the Ivor Raymond singers - All The Things You Are
- Johnny Douglas Orchestra - Santa Margarita / medley
- Dennis Lotis - Soon It's Gonna Rain
- Judd Proctor - [Instrumental. Introduction mentions Alligators which presumably hints at the song title.]

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[harrythebannister]

Thanks for the latest

[Lord Reith]

It's like time travel...

[Egg_Crisis]

Now tune your time machine to 1961-63...


BBC Radio Fragments Vol.05

1961.12.08 News, Any Questions (Light Programme)
- Any Questions visiting Bideford in Devon, with questionmaster Freddy Grisewood

1961.12.11 World Theatre - The Living Corpse (Home Service)
1961-62 Ad for The Navy Lark, Movie Go Round (Light Programme)

1962.03.11 News & Music (various excerpts)
-- The Bradens (6:30-7:30pm)
-- News (7:30pm)
- Berlin air corridors / E.German border police / Fire at army camp / Deaths in Bootle / Smallpox death in South Wales / Prince of Wales returns to school after appendix op / Accrington Stanley
-- Music (Jazz) This bit recorded onto the tape at a later date
-- News (continuation from the earlier piece)
- Cinemas must make a fuss of customers
-- Your 100 Best Tunes (7:35-8:30pm)
-- Music (presumably the rest of this track is from a different date)
- The Bell Notes(?) - I've Had It
- Johnny Nash(?) - Walk With Faith In Your Heart
- (female singer) - The Ould Lammas Fair
- (piano. Russ Conway??) - medley including Auld Lang Syne
-- Music
- (female singer) - Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
-- Announcer announcing a classical piece
- Toccata, first 3 notes heard then the tape ends

1962.07.27 Time For Old Time & News (Light Programme)
1962.09.27 Weather and News (Home Service)

1962.10.31 Once In A While - News - Pop To Bed with David Gell (Light Programme)
(Recording suffers with speed problems)
-- Once In A While
- Ronnie Aldrich - Young At Heart
- Quartetto Italiano - Marina
- Ronnie Aldrich - ?
-- News
- Lend lease aid to India / Soviet missile bases in Cuba / Pension increases for retired public servants / European Cup
-- Pop To Bed with David Gell
- Danny Williams - I Can't Get Anything But Love, Baby
- Nelson Riddle Orchestra - Naked City Theme
- Ronnie Carroll - If Only Tomorrow (Could Be Like Today)

1962.11.xx Pop To Bed - David Gell (Light Programme)
- Sue Thompson - James Hold The Ladder Steady
- Wally Stott Orchestra - Railroad Blues (with Eddie Blair-trumpet, Bob Burns-alto sax)
- Buddy Greco - Mr Lonely

1962.11.xx The Critics. Robert Robinson-Manchurian Candidate (Home Service)
(Had to do some processing on this one as parts of the tape was very quiet)

1963.03.19 Family Favourites - John Dunn (Light Programme)
1963.03-06.xx Just Me (Light Programme)
1963.xx.xx Review Of The Week
1963.xx.xx Round Europe In Song (Light Programme)
196x.xx.xx Unknown light music programme (maybe early 60's)

196x.xx.xx The Pleasure of His Company (1961 Film) (ITV)
A not so great attempt at recording the TV. It's the 1961 Fred Astaire film "The Pleasure of His Company". It wouldn't have been broadcast until a few years after 1961, and presumably on ITV not the BBC as it's not listed on Genome within this timeframe.

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[Gilbeatle]

Thanks !!!

[harrythebannister]

Priceless...thanks again.

[Lord Reith]

This is incredible. It's like having my own Magic Wireless tuned into the past.

[vinylwall]

Now tune your time machine to 1961-63...

All of these are just incredible!!!! Thank you so much Egg_Crisis!

[Egg_Crisis]

Vol.6 is three shows from the same date. It'd be interesting to be able to hear how they broke the story two days earlier, but I don't have that, what I do have is these three recordings...


BBC Radio Fragments Vol.06

Not so much fragments but full shows (apart from the Jazz snippet). Three recordings from two days after JFK's assassination. A complete Radio Newsreel (45 min), A 10-min news report later in the day, and the final 18 minutes of that nights Light Programme.

1963.11.24 Radio Newsreel (Home Service)

(6pm) Sunday review of the weeks news, this week dominated by one story.
Stories: Oswald has been shot within the last hour, Vietnam war, Death of CS Lewis, Teenagers queueing for Beatles tickets. Then a lengthy report on JFK.
After that: Alec Douglas-Home question time in the commons, BOAC chairman resigned, End of the queue for people waiting for telephones to be reached by Spring 1966!, Iraqi students demonstration in London, Everton installing barriers behind the goal to prevent projectiles, Salvation Army, New National Theatre building, Benjamin Britten's 50th birthday, interview with a great dane called Junior, Egon Ronay's guide to 600 of the best pubs in Britain, Britain's first drive-in motel, (interruption for 5 seconds where jazz has been recorded over), Death of Aldous Huxley, and ending with one final report from Leonard Parkin in Washington. Oswald's condition is critical.

1963.11.24 News (Home Service)

(10pm) News read by Frank Phillips.
Lee Harvey Oswald shot, died later in hospital. Leonard Parkin reports on the phone from Dallas. Then a story about the Football league, death of CS Lewis, Spanish minister of information & tourism visits London, Police searching for missing woman in Mansfield, Teenagers queueing for Beatles tickets, International cross-country race in Brussels.

1963.11.24 Jazz Scene, End Of The Day, News (Light Programme)

(11.45pm) end of "The Jazz Scene" presented by Steve Race. (Show started at 10.31pm)
(11.50pm) "The End Of The Day" (religious programme)
(11.55pm) "Late News", read by Angela Buckland
(12.00am) "Closedown". Big Ben Chimes and National Anthem

(These won't be anything new to anyone who obsessively collects JFK stuff - about 10 years ago I gave a copy to a guy on youtube who posts JFK-related audio, and years before that I posted it to a JFK usenet group.)

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