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Leo McKern, This is London - 50 years of the BBC

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TitleThis is London - 50 years of the BBC
Artist(s):Leo McKern
Category:BBC - Transcription Service - Others (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - Transcription Service - Others Albums.)
Label and catalogue number:Picture of images/labels/BBC.jpg labelBBC - 151457 - 2
Format:Vinyl Albums
Country:UK UK flag
Released:1982
Genre:Anything else View all other tracks listed as Anything else.
Format:Transcription disc
Run-off codes:151487 - 2
151488
Item deleted?Yes
Distributed / printed byErreys, Heathfield
Page views:1651 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 2972, rank in albums is 1722.
My rating:*****
Guest rating:*****

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Cover conditionGood
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label codeN
Number have1
What type of seller was usedPhysical shop
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Tracks

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Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
A1The wedding of Prince Charles 29.7.81 [Robert Alexander Runcie (Archbishop of Canterbury)]
A2First Christmas day message from Sandringham [H. M. King George V]
A3Lilliburlero [Band of the Scots Guards]
A4Language services identification - Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Hausa, French [Various]
A5Part of Symphonic Variations [Cesar Franck / Myra Hess with City of Birmingham Orchestra]
A6Excerpt from BBC covers the World, Hornepayne, N. Ontario 18.11.47 [Cecil McIntyre]
A7Destiny waltz [Troise and his Mandoliers]
A8Epsom Derby 6.6.34 [R. C. Lyle]
A9Last night of the proms - Rule Brittania [Colin Davis with BBC Symphony Orchestra]
A10Its just time for dancing [Henry Hall and his Orchestra]
A11Say it with music [Jack Payne and his BBC Orchestra]
A12Night and day [Harry Roy and his Orchestra]
A13Speech from Reichstag [Adolf Hitler]
A14Excerpt from BBC Broadcast 'Causes of war' [Winston Churchill]
A15Excerpt from speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet 9.11.37 [Neville Chamberlain]
A16Opening of the Arabic service [Various]
A17Extract from the LBC programme on Bush House 24.10.81 [Gerald Mansell]
A18First news broadcasts 27.9 38 - French, German, Italian [Various]
A19Bush House in the second World war [Martin Esslin]
A20Excerpt from broadcast to the Free French 22.6.40 [General de Gaulle]
A21Part of a speech by the Prime Minister '.... this was their finest hour' 18.6.40 [Winston Churchill]
A22Listening to Churchill broadcasts in wartime France 7.10.59 [Ginette Spanier]
A23A wartime broadcast in French [Winston Churchill]
A24ITMA [Tommy Hardley / Jack Train]
A25Entertaining thew Australian troops at the Boomerang Club 9.11.42 [Tommy Trinder]
A26Wartime postscript from 'London after dark' 24.8.40 [J. B. Priestley]
A27Lillie Marlene [Ann Shelton]
A28Description of London by night during an air raid 24.8.40 [Ed Murrow]
A29News bulliten - War with Japan 7.12.41 [Alvar Liddell]
A30D-Day special announcement 6.6.44 [John Snagge]
A31Excerpt from BBC feature 'Mike Charlie' - the story of 'War Report' 2.6.55 [Stanley Maxted]
A32VE-Day. A commentary on the scene when Winston Churchill joins the crowds singing 'Land of Hope and Glory' 9.5.45 [Richard Dimbleby]
B1Air raid siren - All clear [Various]
B2Hancock's half hour - extract 17.2.57 [Tony Hancock / Hattie Jacques / Bill Kerr]
B3Radio jamming [Various]
B4Former head of BBC's Russian service [Alexander Leiven]
B5Montage of Far East language services - Urdu, Bengali, Nepali, Hindi [Various]
B6Victor Silvester's overseas request programme - Intro followed by You're dancing on my heart 20.2.56 [Victor Silvester]
B7Vivat Regina [Various]
B8Queen's Jubilee 1977. Extract from speech at London's Guildhall 7.6.77 [H. M. Queen Elizabeth II]
B9Zadok the Priest [Handel]
B10Trinidad Calypso specially composed for the H. M. the Queen's coronation 2.6.53 [Various]
B11Excerpt from the Prime Minister's speech during Suez crisis 3.11.56 [Hugh Gaitskell]
B12Excerpt from party political broadcast in reply to P. M.'s speech on Suez crisis 4.11.56 [Hugh Gaitskell]
B13Hungary's appeal for help as Russian troops invaded 4.11.56 [Free Kossuth radio announcer]
B14Excerpt from 'Wind of change' speech 3.2.60 [Harold Macmillan]
B15Despatch from Washington on President Kennedy's assassination 22.11.63 [Leonard Parkin]
B16A report from Oran during the Algerian way [Ronald Robson]
B17English by radio - Pedagogical pop followed by 'We don't talk anymore' [Keith Alexander / Miranda Forbes / Cliff Richard]
B18The goon show - extract [Harry Secombe / Spike Milligan / Peter Sellers]
B19Introduction to 'Good morning Africa' and signature tune 12.7.67 [Pete Myers]
B20Signature tune and introduction to 'The World today' [Various]
B21Signature tune and introduction to 'Outlook' [Various]
B22Introduction only to '24 hours' [Vaious]
B23Sporting highlights - XX Olympiad Munich 1972 - Commentary on finish of 3000 metres steeplechase 4.9.72 [Norman Cuddeford]
B24The final round of the World Middleweight Boxing Championship - Sugar Ray Robinson V Randolph Turpin 10.7.51 [Raymond Glendenning]
B25The World Cup - Football 1966 commentary on the winning goal 30.7.66 [A. Clarke]
B26An excerpt from an after dinner speech in New York [Alistair Cooke]
B27Description of final stages of Moon landing 20.7.69 [Arthur Garrett]
B28Excerpt from 'Tropical tapes profiles' interview with Margaret Thatcher February 1971 [Margaret Thatcher / Bernard Palmer]
B29Governor Ronald Reagan interviewed on 'Outlook' 8.4.75 [Ronald Reagan / John Tidmarsh]
B30Part of a speech given by President Sadat during signing of the Middle East Peace Treaty 26.3.79 [President Sadat]
B31On the eve of independence - speech by Robert Mugabe 17.4.80 [Robert Mugabe]
B32Letter from a Chinese listener (partly in Mandarin) [Vincent Shui]
B33Postscript by the BBC's External Services Managing Director [Douglas Muggeridge]
B34Big Ben [Various]
Total length of media 0:00.

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Front cover of 151457 - 2
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Back cover of 151457 - 2
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Further information

BBC Transcription Services (before BBC Transcription Service (no "s"), later BBC Transcription and today BBC Radio International) discs were only made available to overseas radio stations for broadcast purposes and were not made available for sale to the general public. However, in the early 90s many international BBC libraries sold their stocks to the public. Limitation: "Typically BBC Transcription Services pressed 100 copies of each disc only with instructions to the overseas radio network to destroy the disc at the end of the licence period."

Note that the genre of shows available via this label is as wide as the main BBC labels available to view here.

Also, records have been issued home and abroad for many years (the oldest I have has a date of 1949 but they have been issued for much longer!) Unlike most catalogues of records, each side of the BBC Transcription disc has it's own catalogue number - side two normally is one number higher than side one!

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