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Earlier this year the team visited Nice for the Film
Festival, and spent a month gathering interviews and material, and discovering that Nice doesn't have a Film Festival.
So book your seat in the rear stalls of the Empire, Isle of Dogs. Music by STEVE BROWN and philip POPE
A PAUL METRO GOLDWYN MAYHEW-ARCHER production
(At the Cannes Radio Festival this programme won the Patio D'Or) (First broadcast on Radio 4)
('Radio Active - Stop that Crime UK' on New Year's Day at 10.0pm)

Contributors

Music By:
Steve Brown
Unknown:
Goldwyn Mayhew-Archer

What are your memories of the past 12 months of sporting action? Mansell's mighty but frustrated assault on the World Drivers' Championship?
Maradona's hand in England's World Cup failure? Bruno's big boxing dream? The golden exploits of Britain's athletes in Stuttgart? Or the tides and turbulence of the English cricketing scene?
Ken Jones , sports writer of The Independent, looks back on some of the year's highlights with the help of Graham Gooch , Gary Lineker , Nigel Mansell , Sebastian Coe , Steve Cram , Lloyd Honeyghan , Frank Bruno , Terry Lawless and other stars of the sporting year. Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
(Re-broadcast on New Year 's Eve at 10.0pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Jones
Unknown:
Graham Gooch
Unknown:
Gary Lineker
Unknown:
Nigel Mansell
Unknown:
Sebastian Coe
Unknown:
Steve Cram
Unknown:
Lloyd Honeyghan
Unknown:
Frank Bruno
Unknown:
Terry Lawless
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

with the BBC Concert Orchestra leader MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by Robin Stapleton One of the world's greatest tenors in a concert of well-loved songs from his native Spain, Neapolitan favourites and highlights from famous stage and film musicals.
Among the songs Jose Carreras sings are 'Love is a many splendoured thing',
'A Vucchella', 'Be my love',
'Love's last word is spoken', 'As time goes by', 'The impossible dream', and West Side Story's show-stopper, 'Tonight'. Producer BARRY KNIGHT (R)
8.20-8.40* Interval
Ian Wallace presents a radio biography of this outstanding Spanish tenor.

Contributors

Leader:
Martin Loveday
Conducted By:
Robin Stapleton
Songs:
Jose Carreras
Unknown:
Ian Wallace

conducted by Dolf Van Der Linden, Jerry Van Rooyen and Rogier Van Otterloo with guest vocalists Colin Anthony, Lee Gibson Jeff Hooper, Lois Lane, Mike Redway, Nonna Winstone and international instrumentalists Ronnie Cuber (baritone saxophone) Slide Hampton (trombone) Clifford Jordan (tenor saxophone) Dick Morrissey (tenor saxophone)
Chris Pyne (trombone) John Taylor (piano)
Introduced by Sheila Tracy
(A BBC co-production with NOS, recorded in Hilversum, Holland)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Dolf van Der Linden
Unknown:
Jerry van Rooyen
Unknown:
Rogier van Otterloo
Unknown:
Colin Anthony
Unknown:
Lee Gibson
Unknown:
Jeff Hooper
Unknown:
Lois Lane
Unknown:
Mike Redway
Unknown:
Nonna Winstone
Tenor:
Dick Morrissey
Unknown:
Chris Pyne
Piano:
John Taylor
Introduced By:
Sheila Tracy

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