Our Day And Age - A Brave Step (fragment)

Title: Our Day And Age - "A Brave Step"
Broadcast date: c.1958
Length: 4 minutes 10sec (Incomplete show)

The very end bit of an episode, the rest having been recorded over.
This probably comes from series 2 of the show, sometime around mid 1958.

This episode was about Alec Scott, a blind man who became a broadcaster.
With Charles Witherspoon as Alec Scott.
Also includes a few words from the real Alec Scott at the end.
Script written by Stephen Grenfell who was also the storyteller.

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Our Day And Age - Operation Snowdrop

Title: Our Day And Age - #65 (series 3, episode 2) - "Operation Snowdrop"
Broadcast date: late 1958
Length: 29 minutes 14sec (complete show)

A dramatised account of the great blizzard which struck Northern Scotland in Jan 1955.
Script written by Steven Grenfell who is also the storyteller.

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Day By Day 14th March 1969

"Day By Day"
Southern TV
14th March 1969
(35 minutes)


Local news show...

Pegwell Bay hoverport scheme
Former goalkeeper guilty of receiving stolen cigars
Oil-polluted beaches at Herne Bay
Alfred Shermilly celebrates 50th wedding anniversary with a salvo of rockets
Housewife in court accused of petrol bomb attack on a police car
Forged fivers alert
Gillingham man in trouble in Kenya for naming his great dane after President Kenyatta
A man's challenge to sell union jack carrier bags in Paris.
Threatening letters sent to Archbishop of Canterbury.
etc...

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CKLX & CBC Canada 1955

2 short snippets on the end of a reel...

CKNC / CKLX / CKCX Canada

Short wave

c.1955

(Length 1 min 38 sec)

"This is Canada transmitting now on the European service, on CKNC... and on CKLX..."

"At this time we close station CKLX... ...and have now been joined by CKCX."

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CBC Canada

Short wave

c.1955

(Length - 50 seconds)

"To end the news, here are the baseball results in the international league on Friday..."

"...That was a news broadcast for Canadian servicemen overseas read by Earl Fisher in Montreal."

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News 25th June 1969

News
BBC World Service
25th June 1969, 1300GMT
(10 minutes)

Rhodesia, Vietnam, Israel, Healey visits Hong Kong & Singapore, Poisoning kills fish in River Rhine, Harrisburg race riots, Judy Garland's death declared accidental, Tennis-Wimbledon.

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Church Service & Latin-American Music 1961-62

c.1961/62

10:36 - 11:00am
The Litany & Ante-Communion from the Temple Church, London
Officiant: Rev W. D. Kennedy-Bell.
Organist & Choirmaster: Dr. George Thalben-Ball


11:00am pips & announcer (tells us that at 11:30 there'll be an abridged version of of "An Inspector Calls" and at 12:00 "Rendezvous With Spring" a talk by Harry Soan(sp?).)


11:00 - 11:05am
Programme of Latin-American Music

with The Chico McDermott Latin Music
1. Intro
2. Maria's Her Name
3. The End Of The World (vocal - Sonny McKenzie, arrangement by Hal Green) (fades out)


This is what was taped over the start of the Dennis Lotis recording (Sept/Oct/Nov 1961) and has to be sometime after that date.

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Dennis Lotis, Oct 1961

Dennis Lotis
BBC Light Programme
Sept/Oct/Nov 1961
(18 minutes)

01 Dennis Lotis - ?
02 Judd Proctor - Kon Tiki
03 ? - [instrumental]
Johnny Douglas introduces his pianist Ronnie Price
04 Ronnie Price with the Ivor Raymond singers - All The Things You Are
05 Johnny Douglas Orchestra - Santa Margarita / medley
06 Dennis Lotis - Soon It's Gonna Rain
07 Judd Proctor - [Instrumental. Introduction mentions Alligators which presumably hints at the song title.]

The main clue to the date is the introduction to Kon Tiki - "Riding the waves of the current hit parade is Kon Tiki" (This song Was a hit for The Shadows, Sept'61, re-entry Nov'61).

The first part of the reel (29 minutes) had been recorded over and most likely contained the first part of the show from the start.  This 18-minute portion fades out at the end with no indication it's the end of the show, so what we have here is probably more-or-less the third quarter of a 1-hour show.

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