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I did have this complete on audio cassette - but am not sure where it is nowadays. Is this one of the BBCs recordings that were thoughtlessly erased back then?
Alistair
Thanks to the new BBC site that lists all programmes in RADIO TIMES from its inception, I can now identify the programme I have been looking for in its entirety. It was called
Quartet
BBC Two England, 12 June 1980 21.30
Synopsis
words and music from Penelope Keith Elaine Stritch Alan Bennett Russell Harty
Designer BARRY NEWBERY Director JEREMY SWAN
Producer ALAN SHALLCROSS
Contributors
Unknown: Penelope Keith
Unknown: Elaine Stritch
Unknown: Alan Bennett
Unknown: Russell Harty
Designer: Barry Newbery
Director: Jeremy Swan
Producer: Alan Shallcross
It consisted of Harty chairing a sort of WITH GREAT PLEASURE in which Keith, Stritch and Alan Bennett read extracts from their own and others' works. I only have the Alan Bennett pieces on VHS, one of them from his yet-to-be-performed play ENJOY. When it was performed in 1980 it only ran for seven weeks and was considered his first flop. But his recitation of the contents of a mantelpiece such as that of his father, is absolutely brilliant. I would dearly like to find out whether anybody taped the whole programme in June 1980.
I did have this complete on audio cassette - but am not sure where it is nowadays. Is this one of the BBCs recordings that were thoughtlessly erased back then?
Alistair
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