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Live from the Hippodrome, Golders Green, London.
Philip Gibson conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Martin Loveday.
The Friday Night Star Singers are Beverley Humphreys and Anthony Michaels-Moore, with the Nigel Brooks Singers.
Introduced by Robin Boyle. Producer Alan Boyd

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Loveday.
Unknown:
Beverley Humphreys
Unknown:
Anthony Michaels-Moore
Introduced By:
Robin Boyle.
Producer:
Alan Boyd

On the March 16, 1943, the BBC Wireless Military Band gave its last broadcast on the Light Programme. Some 50 years on, the Royal
Northern College of Music Wind Band, conducted by Clark Rundell , recreate the band's final broadcast, with music including Saint-Saens' Phaeton,
Balakirev's Islamey, and Three Humoreskes by the band's founder, B Walton O'Donnell. Frank Renton looks back at the history of one of the earliest and most popular of musical combinations to broadcast in the golden age of radio. Producer Bob McDowall

Contributors

Conducted By:
Clark Rundell
Conducted By:
Three Humoreskes
Unknown:
Walton O'Donnell.
Unknown:
Frank Renton
Producer:
Bob McDowall

Austin Mitchell visits the "land of the prince bishops" to celebrate the 900th anniversary of Durham Cathedral, and discovers why the cathedral is ranked alongside the Taj Mahal and the Palace of Versailles as a World
Heritage Site. With the Bishop of Durham, the Rt
Rev David Jenkins , and the Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll . Producer Geoff Sargieson

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jenkins
Unknown:
Albert Museum
Unknown:
Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
Producer:
Geoff Sargieson

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