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A Spark to Fire the Engine

BBC Radio 3
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The first of three programmes re-examining the Marshall Plan for American economic aid to post-war Western Europe Presented by John Major of the University of Hull
We were running a favourable balance of trade surplus of five billion a year and, unless one could find some way of offsetting that surplus, we were gradually going to bankrupt all countries in the world. (PAUL NITZE) Other contributors include HERVE ALPHAND. LORD BULLOCK.
SIR ALEC CAIRNCROSS. LORD FRANKS. LORD MAYHEW. LORD ROLL and DIRK SPIERENBURG.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Presented By:
John Major
Unknown:
Herve Alphand.
Unknown:
Sir Alec Cairncross.
Unknown:
Dirk Spierenburg.
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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