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A monthly report from the world of music.

Including:
The Unknown Warrior of Music
Next Sunday sees a performance at the Royal Albert Hall of ninety-year-old Havergal Brian's colossal Gothic Symphony - only the second it has had since it was written over forty-five years ago. This film is about the astonishing yet largely unknown composer who has completed no less than twenty-six symphonies, fourteen of them since reaching the age of eighty.
Introduced by Bernard Keeffe.

(Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony will be broadcast on Sunday, October 30, in the Third Programme)

Contributors

Subject:
Havergal Brian
Presenter:
Bernard Keeffe
Director:
Anthony Wilkinson
Producer:
Kenneth Corden

by Mordecai Roshwald.
Dramatised by J. B. Priestley.
Starring Anthony Bate, Keith Buckley, Michele Dotrice
and David Collings, Tom Criddle, Jane Jordan Rogers
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Contributors

Author:
Mordecai Roshwald
Dramatised by:
J.B. Priestley
Title music composed and conducted by:
Norman Kay
Designer:
Norman James
Producer:
Irene Shubik
Director:
Rudolph Cartier
General:
Anthony Bate
Woman Commandant:
Jane Jordan Rogers
Doctor:
Tom Criddle
X.117:
David Collings
R.747:
Michele Dotrice
New Man:
Sean Arnold
Air Supply Officer:
Anthony Sweeny
Radio Man One:
David Cargill
Radio Man Two:
Raymond Hardy
Man:
Glenn Williams
Woman:
Patricia Denys

A new series presenting the best in international jazz recorded in concert from Britain's foremost colleges and universities.
This week from The Cambridge Union: The Thelonious Monk Quartet
One of America's leading jazz groups: Thelonious Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor saxophone), Larry Gales (bass), Ben Riley (drums)
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.
(The Thelonious Monk Quartet appears by arrangement with Harold Davison Ltd.)

Contributors

Pianist:
Thelonious Monk
Tenor saxophonist:
Charlie Rouse
Bassist:
Larry Gales
Drummer:
Ben Riley
Presenter:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer:
Terry Henebery

A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.

Contributors

Presenter:
Denis Tuohy
Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Presenter:
Tony Bilbow

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