It was a Solid Killing Match

Delia created music and effects known as "It Was a Solid Killing Match" for a 55-minute BBC film Monty Returns to El Alamein, an outside broadcast for TV produced by Ray Colley for which the "Film and music editor" credit goes to Norman Matthews.

In the programme, Field Marshall Montgomery returns to the battle fields of El Alamein and describes the conditions they lived through and the tactics used to win this key battle of World War II. He also mentions his view of “national and personal tastes in fighting” in which “Australians like a "solid killing match".”

The Imperial War Museum has a copy of it with catalogue entry

Main title: MONTY RETURNS TO EL ALAMEIN
Catalogue number: PMM 16
Production date: 1967-10-19
Place made: GB
Creator: BBC Television (Production company)
         Colley, Ray (Production individual)

The programme is also the cover story of Radio Times issue #2292 for programmes broadcast from 14-20th Oct 1967.

Track list

The film contains the following music and composited effects. The dissolvences and scene changes are obviously Delia's work; other parts may be hers or may have been assembled by the film and sound editor.

• 00:15-01:44 Intro

• 02:46-05:34 It Was A Solid Killing Match

The accompanying video alternates between scenes of Cairo and scenes of marching Nazis, followed by war scenes and finally shots of the dead.

• 12:46-13:08 Dissolvence

• 17:35-17:43 Dissolvence (same as before, but worse quality)
• 22:49-24:16 A Tremendous Artillery Crash

• 36:10-36.20 Tel-el-Aqqaqir scene change

• 43:32-43:53 Rommel Smashed in Battle (also present at the end of the Intro)

Availability

• Broadast on the 19th October 1967 on BBC1.
• The BBC Sound Archive tape TRW 6718 is missing.
• On 16mm film at the Imperial War Museum.