The Long Distance Piano Player

The Long Distance Piano Player was the first ever programme in the BBC's Play for Today series, broadcast on 15th October 1970 starring Ray Davies and directed by Philip Saville about a several-day marathon of non-stop piano playing.

Mark Ayres' Initial Catalogue describes one of Delia's tapes as "Long Distance Piano Player?" and it is listed in Briscoe's Radiophonic Workshop Television and Radio Commitments 1970 but all the music is orchestral, solo piano or jazz and the Radiophonic Workshop is not credited.

Papers

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  DD072643: Radiophonic Workshop Television and Radio Commitments 1970 listing Long Distance Piano Player

Tapes

• DD166: Ray Davies' Got To Be Free, for inclusion in this
• DD232: Ray Davies Marathon Copy (Long Distance Piano Player? TRW 4069?)

Availability

• First broadcast on 15th October 1970.