Famous Gossips
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Jump to navigationJump to searchDelia is credited with music for a BBC television programme "Famous Gossips" produced by Patrick Garland in which "Six literary immortals [are] brought to life by six well-known actors".
Its tape is dated 1st May 1965 and its catalogue entry says it was first broadcast on 22nd August of the same year[1] but we don't know if Delia's music was a theme for the whole series or only for the first episode.
Episodes
The BBC Genome Project lists:[2]
- 22 Aug. 1965 - John Aubrey: The Antiquary
- 29 Aug. 1965 - Parson Yorick: The Sentimental Traveller
- 01 Sep. 1965 - Harriette Wilson: Angelic Harry
- 12 Sep. 1965 - Charles Apperley: The Tribute to Squire Mytton
- 19 Sep. 1965 - Augustus Hare: The Years with Mother
- 26 Sep. 1965 - Oscar Wilde: Monsieur Sebastian Melmoth
and
- 21 Feb, 1968 - The Years with Mother: Alan Bennett plays Augustus Hare, presumably a repeat.
Related work
Patrick Garland's "long-running West End production of Brief Lives came out of an episode about Aubrey in Famous Gossips (1965), the BBC television series Garland made with [Alan] Bennett"[3] and one of Delia's Attic Tapes is labelled "Brief Lives"[4] as is a BBC tape credited to Brian Hodgson.[5]
Credits
- Unknown: Squire Mytton
- Played By: Nigel Stock
- Unknown: John Mytton
- Introduced By: Hugo Dyson
- Designer: Julia Trevelyn Oman
- Produced By: Patrick Garland[2]
Availability
- Broadcast on BBC1 on 22nd August 1965 at 10.40pm[1][2]
- In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 6302.[1]
- In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 4.[1][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Tape Library List entry for TRW 6302: "Famous Gossips".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 A search for "Famous Gossips" on the BBC Genome Project.
- ↑ Patrick Garland's obituary in The Guardian.
- ↑ DD075: "Brief Lives"
- ↑ TRW 6792: "Brief Lives"
- ↑ The Tape Library List entry for TRW 4: "Radiophonic Workshop Archive Tape 4".
