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MUSIC HALL PERFORMERS

 
OLD JOKES


 
SOME INTERESTING RECORD LABELS

 
RECORDINGS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY

   
OPERATIC VOCALS ON 78s


STARS OF THE WIRELESS


STARS OF 78s


RESEARCH NOTES
    I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again    
   Monty Python's Flying Circus    
1st series    
   At Last The 1948 Show

THE BBC AT BUSH HOUSE
Index
Introduction
Control Room - EMX
Control Room - VOA
Control Room - MCP
Control Room - Berlin Line Test
Disk Recording
Tape Recording Channel E10
Tape Recording Channel E7
Central Tape Room
Leevers-Rich Tape Machine
Studer Tape Machine
Radioman Digital Playout System
Radioman Playlist
Radioman Cartwall
World Service in English continuity
World Service in English announcer
World Service in English new desk
World Service in English new desk
World Service in English announcer
Studios: OBA/8
Studios: Marconi Desk
Studios: Type B Mk 1
Studios: Type B Mk 2
Studios: DK4/12
Studios: DK4/19
Studios: S39
Studios: GP Desk In S7
Studios: Later GP Desk in S7
Studios: S6 Cubicle
Studios: S6 Studio
Studios: Tweed Desk
Studios: S14
Studios: Producer-operated
Studios: C21 (1962)
Studios: C21 (2004)
Studios: Computers in C21
Old Control Room
Old Control Room: Tom's Office
New Control Room 1991
New Control Room 2000
Goodbye Bush House


FRAGMENTS OF AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF BROADCASTING
Recording at the BBC
   Steel tape
   Optical film
   Directly-cut disks
   Magnetic tape
   Portable recording
   Carts and Darts
   Digital recording and playout
The strange history of the loudspeaker mute relay
Formal Attire
Black Boomerang
'Death At Broadcasting House'
'Temporary' studio equipment
Margaret Thatcher and me
The Occult Art of Video Recording
   Broadcast video recording
   Domestic video recording (analogue)
   Domestic video recording (digital)
A Useful Glossary
Bibliography


BIOGRAPHY
About my books
Wilmut family history
1790 document (text)
1790 document (scan of the document)



  REPRODUCTION OF 78rpm RECORDS


PHOTO ALBUMS INDEX
    Holland in 1935 and 1958
    Stratford-on-Avon
    Cathedrals and Abbeys
    Warwick School in 1961
           Staff    



TECHNICAL NOTES
   iCloud
   Podcasts
   Abandoning AppleWorks & iWork
   Web Page construction
   General computer queries
   Garageband & Audio notes
   Swift Publisher 2 tips
   Casio CTK-6000 keyboard review


Some useful links
Some more links






WEBLOG  (2006-2010)
To blog or not to blog
   What is a weblog?
Spell me with a 'U'
The Better 'Ole
   read more
Open Secret
Where is this? (1)
BBC Programme Index online
My favourite music-hall joke
   audio
Where is this? (2)
Another urban myth exploded
Cyrano de Bergerac (opera by Alfano)
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Afsluitdijk (Ijsselmeer)‚ Holland‚ August 1935
Brahms and Szymanowski at Westminster Cathedral
Formality in the future
Royal Ballet - Mixed Bill
Timeline
Margaret Thatcher and Me
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Where is this? (3)
A message from the dark side
Milhaud‚ Copland‚ Poulenc and Ibert at the QEH
It's a Phone‚ but not as we know it
My Bicycle
Shostakovich and Mahler at the QEH
Beyond the Fringe on DVD
The General Line
BBC recording room in 1961
Pineapple Poll at the Peacock
What is a Podcast?
The Patsy
The Nexus of Cycling
Keep The Aspidistra Flying
Edam in 1958
Obituary: Peter Copeland
Disc-cutting in the suburbs
   photos
Nice Zeiss
Bolshoi Ballet - 'The Bright Stream'
Home‚ James
'Patlabor' & 'Grave of the Fireflies'
Covent Garden in 1983
Jam Session in the Garage
   audio
Religion on the doorstep
Astrid Varnay
Sir Henry Wood's Hornpipe
   audio
Where is this? (4)
Symphony of a Thousand
Enlightenment at the QEH
Silly Remarks (1)
45 years and counting
More computer jazz
   audio
The Tao of de-umming
DAB-ling with radio quality
Two overtures and a concerto at the QEH
Josephine Baker at the NFT
Politicians in the studio
Political Asylum
Silly Remarks (2)
Berlioz at the Royal Albert Hall
Hearts of the World
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Badinage at the Purcell Room
The Name's Bond - James Bond
Does God have shares in Sony?
'Worse Than My Byte'
Natural Horns at the QEH
RPO at Cadogan Hall
Famous faces at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
'Blues for Kid Ory' (computer jazz)
Three concerts in eight days
An animated Christmas
Where is this? (5)
Silly remarks (3)
Louise Brooks at the NFT
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Computer Ragtime
Night shift blues
Psalms and piano at the QEH
Where the cheese comes from
Ragtime into Jazz
Glinka‚ Mendelssohn and Schumann at the QEH
Hallelujah!
A definite fire hazard
Three 'B's and a lady conductor
Silly Remarks (4)
Stunning Rachmaninov at the QEH
Shanklin‚ Isle of Wight
Berezovsky concert to be broadcast on Radio 3
'Secrets of the Heavenly Book'
Renate‚ Jessie‚ Julie‚ Victor and Victoria
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We don't get winters like that any more
Siegfried on the small screen
Mahler at the Royal Albert Hall
Götterdämmerung on the small screen
Siegfried - the first great movie score
In the Flickr of an eye
Saxophone‚ Piano and Harp at the QEH
Eugene Onegin by the Royal Ballet
Wartime in the Strand
How not to televise 'Swan Lake'
Three more 'B's and a lady conductor
'Koanga' at Sadler's Wells
Small beginnings
   audio
Winchester Cathedral
Believable Magic
Happy Birthday, Weblog
Look‚ no wires
Small beginnings (2)
Bird's eye view
Elgar at the QEH
The Entertainer
Sometimes everything goes right 
The Future‚ from the Past
Chopin and Dvořák at the QEH
Three Dancing Musketeers
Swinging London
Strings at the Wigmore
Fritz Lang's Criminal Masterminds
Sometimes everything goes wrong (1)
   audio
Go to work on an egg
When the BBC didn't dislike ballet
Unfamiliar Bloch at the Cadogan Hall
Weymouth in DufayColour
October
Sometimes everything goes wrong (2)
Makeover!
The Car Man
Twelve Good Men and True
The unreconstructed monolinguist
Sometimes everything goes wrong (3)
Family history - 150 years ago
Workers of the World divide
Triple Bolshoi
Where is this? (6)
Kwaidan
Required reading
Family history - three sisters
The other side of the fence
Frank Randle on film
Familiar favourites at Cadogan Hall
Family history - back to the Front
Back to the RFH
   read more
Wagner - the first biopic
End of an Era
   read more
Edward II at the ballet
Sometimes everything goes wrong (4)
Metamorphoses and Zarathrustra at the RFH
Photo - Horton Country Park
Missing Man of Marble
Conrad's silent Victory
Lord Jim
Mozart‚ Mahler and Stradivari at the RFH
Hamlet in Tamil
Zemlinsky, Korngold‚ and Shostakovich
Plugs and cords
Modernism and medievalism
Man of Iron (found)
Beethoven and Mahler
Perfect Reproduction
Bax‚ Nielsen and Rachmaninov
When Julie Andrews resolved a BBC strike
The Snow Queen
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
The Southsea Ferry
Skaters‚ Mice‚ Pigs and a Hedgehog at the ballet
The Secret of Comedy
Prokofiev‚ Debussy and Roussel
The Secret of Happiness
A violin and a Mermaid
The Secret of Scriptwriting
Temporary studio equipment
Pavement Butterfly
'Rolling on the floor' ballets
Debussy‚Tchaikovsky & Lutosławski at the RFH
The Woman in the Moon
Technology and Choreography
My Best Girl
Nigel Kennedy versus Elgar at the RFH
Portable computing - small and cheap
A concerto‚ a death‚ and a practical joker
Lost Lorre
Shakespeare's church
Dance goes Dutch
Heaven on Earth
The Bird in the Box
Sleeping Beauties
Original language
Operatic Requiem
The Critics were Wrong
Lost Prokofiev and elegant dancing
Music for an ordered world
Analyse this
Brahms and Strauss at the RFH
Charing Cross
A genial evening at the RFH
A Gathering and a Dream
Widescreen Wayne
The native hue of resolution
Ancient music at the Wigmore
A family advertisement
Ballet at the Royal Festival Hall
Japanese satire at the NFT
78rpm label design
Dialogue which will never die
The Naked Island
Little Dutch Bridge
Sound design in 'Rear Window'
A rest is a good as a change
The ballet of Dorian Gray
Chaplin at Keystone
Puccini at the Peacock
78rpm label design (2)
   audio
Natalne!
A cursed King at the RFH
Wagner‚ Brahms and Sibelius at the RFH
Proof of identity
A forgotten Chinese star
The Transfiguration of Messiaen
Tchaikovsky revealed
Iolanta revealed
Tchaikovsky and Kalinnikov
A Serenade‚ a Voyage‚ and some Variations
Black Boomerang
Music from an anxious age
78rpm label design (3)
Three modern ballets
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Too many notes at the Royal Festival Hall
Mamoulian's City Streets
Authentic Schumann at the RFH
Widescreen Whyteleafe
78rpm label design (4)
   audio
Blood and Sand
Christmas Pudding
Hansel and Gretel
Obsolete recording formats
Morris dancing
Mahler's farewell
European co-operation
Domestic bliss at the RFH
78rpm label design (5)
How do you blog?
Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall
Russian music at Cadogan Hall
Korngold's Dead City
Two last symphonies at the RFH
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Gurrelieder at the Royal Festival Hall
War and Peace
Schoenberg and Zemlinsky at the Royal Festival Hall
Two more last Symphonies at the RFH
Isadora at Covent Garden
78rpm label design (6)
   audio
The Orion Orchestra at the Cadogan Hall
A Mendelssohn premiere at the RFH
Haiku‚ you ku‚ we all ku
Youthful enthusiasm at the RFH
Astronomical
Haydn and Mozart at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Height‚ Width - and Depth
The future - but not as we know it
Beware the Aphorism
Olé!
Ondine
Lincoln Cathedral
Jewels
Jam yesterday
The other 'M'
Butterfly at the Coliseum
The slow death of grammar
Music from Korea and Russia
Prescient‚ or what?
78rpm label design (7)
   audio
   lyrics
Drunk as a jay?
Silly Season (1)
Blue pencil
Silly season (2)
Where Turkey leads we follow
Silly season (3)
A technical timebomb
Silly season (4)
Quality counts
Rachmaninov and Shostakovich
Formal Attire
The Slav world and the New World
Underground
78rpm label design (8)
   audio
Height and depth
Cyrano dances
3D on TV
A different Faust
Bluebeard and a sacrifice
Gypsies‚ a concerto‚ and paintings at the RFH
A touch of Polish
Polish joke
Smart radio - the Pure 'Sensia'
   read more
Avatar
3D in depth
Strange Neighbours
Million Dollar Legs
Szymanowki and Shostakovich
Man on the Flying Trapeze
No Comment
Elgar and Manfred
Broadcasting history
The Czech National Symphony Orchestra
Three from Bollywood
Janáček and Suk
Czech chamber music
Mozart‚ Schubert and a different conductor
Early Alice
Canon fodder
Three Russian composers
Three by MacMillan
Secrets of a Soul
Familiar Dvořák‚ unfamiliar Verdi and Strauss
Silent Waterloo
Prokofiev and Myaskovsky
Blog's end