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Richard Strauss 's Elektra is performed by London Voices and the BBC Scottish Symphony, conducted by Donald Runnicles. Gabriele Schnaut. Janice Watson and Felicity Palmer are among the singers. BBCi: interactive features available via the red button on the handset
The buildings of New York.
The US as a world military power and the growth of the United
Nations feature in the first of a double bill.
10.40 How did America in the early 1970s compare with the world envisaged by the settlers? Last of the series. Postcards from America follows.
The dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 and the assassination of JFK are among topics as excerpts from Cooke's broadcasts from to 2001 are mixed with archive footage.
The Beatles, the 1960s and punk changed the way we used English as working-class voices broke into the media. Continues Thursday at 12.20am.
