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Screen Two: Words of Love

on BBC Two England

by Philip Norman
2 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the Atlantic, a schoolboy models his life on the rock 'n' roll star whose music and untimely death affected the lives of a generation.
FEATURE: page 4
FILMS: page 13
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Contributors

Writer:
Philip Norman
Film Editor:
Frances Parker
Designer:
Tony Burrough
Lighting Cameraman:
John Hooper
Executive Producer:
Brenda Reid
Producer:
Brian Eastman
Director:
Colin Nutley
England:
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Ivor:
Charlie Creed-Miles
Mr Seaford-Warwick:
Tom Bell
Gran:
Liz Smith
Miss Lott:
Rowena Roberts
Andrew:
Simon Vaughan
Sweetman:
Ben Perkins
Spooner:
Scott Pattison
Forer:
Bruce Clark
Truckle:
Cliff Kelly
Mr Chesterton:
Alister Cameron
George Harvey:
Matthew Savage
Mrs Harvey:
Tricia Thorns
America:
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Buddy Holly .:
Pancho Russell
Maria-Elena Holly:
Nadia de Lemeny
Big Bopper:
Bradley Lavelle
Tommy Allsup:
Paul Birchard
Ritchie Valens:
William Jongeneel
Waylon Jennings:
Adam Henderson
Dion Demucci:
Mark Zingale
Carroll:
Ray Charleson
Waitress:
Valda Aviks
Trish:
Anne Roderick
Reporter:
Michael Morris
Saxophonist:
Eric Gilchrist
Guitarist:
David Murrell

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