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The forth and final episode in the series deals with period after LBJ and Nixon's increasing paranoia and the end of Hoover's career as he dies still in post.

The third play in the series, They Call Him Bobby deals with the Kennedy period and the growing Civil Rights movement.

The second of four radio plays about the Head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, J Edgar Hoover. Episode 2 Public Enemy enters the era of Mobsters and G-Men

BBC R4 News 3pm 16 4 23

Harry Harrison The Black Country Bard Part of the "Black Country Night Out" an ensemble group of musicians, a comedienne and comedians. They specialised in Black Country humour, songs and observations. Harry

BBC R4 News 3pm 9 4 99

BBC Radio 4 News 3PM 2 4 99

BBC Radio 4 News 3PM 26 3 99

Author & Playwright Alan Sillitoe reads one of his stories

More stories from the career of Blaster Bates Recorded in 1969

True Counter Culture from 1967. Forshadows what has come to pass.

Narrated By Wynford Vaughn Thomas

Blaster Bates. after dinner speaking with a bang! 1960s to 1970s

At last the full unabridged Broadcasts of Idi Amin. Interpreted by John Bird. Written By Alan Coren 1975

Recorded before a live audience in March 1977 at a corporate event here is Blaster Bates in full force.

One and a half hours of non stop dance music from real musicians with talent playing real musical instruments. So get on your feet, grab your girl and face the music with Lew Stone, Al Bowlly, Ambrose and Harry Roy. Music Maestro Please! (Listen out for the Al Bowlly number, "My Woman", recently sampled by Dua Lipa @53:40) More on the featured artistes here: Al Bowlly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bowlly Lew Stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Stone Ambrose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_(bandleader) Harry Roy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Roy

The funeral started on Tuesday 26 January 1965. By 8:30 p.m. police and security personnel had taken up their positions in what The Daily Telegraph reported as "the most extensive security operation of this sort ever undertaken in England."[11] At 9:15 p.m. Churchill's body was transported from his London home to Westminster Hall for the lying in state. It was led by Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold, the Lord Chamberlain in the company of family members.[26] He was placed on a catafalque before Lady Churchill and the Earl Marshall. At 9:00 p.m. the first watch was mounted in the hall by the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards. In the subsequent days the Royal Navy and five regiments of foot guards also took turns.[30] The lying-in-state lasted from Wednesday 27 January to 6:00 a.m. on 30 January,[31] during which Westminster Hall was kept open for 23 hours daily. An hour was reserved for cleaning. The queue was most times more than one mile long, and the waiting time was about three hours;[26] 321,360 people came to pay their respects.[10][32] Order of service The funeral service on Saturday 30 January began with the chiming of Big Ben at 9:45 a.m. It was broadcast live on BBC, presented by Richard Dimbleby.[33] The clock was muted for the rest of the day. Ninety cannon salutes were fired at Hyde Park to mark the ninety years of Churchill's life.[8][34] The coffin was placed on a gun carriage and draped with the Union Flag upon which was the insignia of the Order of the Garter on top of a black cushion. It was carried from the hall by a bearer party of eight guards from the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards. The procession started upon a drum beat by the Royal Navy and was then led by the Royal Air Force and the Foot guards. Following the gun carriage were Randolph Churchill and his son Winston side by side, followed by male members of the Churchill family and Churchill's private secretary, Anthony Montague Browne,[26] all on foot. Lady Churchill and two daughters followed in the Queen's town coach. As the procession was leaving the New Palace Yard of the Palace of Westminster, a single gunshot was fired at St James's Park.[35] The march processed through Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, the Strand, Fleet Street, and up Ludgate Hill. A marching band consisted of three officers and 96 soldiers of the Scots Guards 2nd Battalion. Banners of the Danish resistance movements were lowered in respect at the Cenotaph.[36] Altogether 2,500 soldiers and civilians took part in the procession, while four half-companies of soldiers lined the streets.[30] Four majors of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars were assigned to carry Churchill's medals, orders and decorations.[8] A single gunshot was fired every minute until they arrived at St Paul's.[35] After an hour, the service was held at St Paul's Cathedral. 3,500 people attended, including the Queen, who did not normally attend funerals of commoners. Protocol also dictated that the Queen be the last to arrive at an event, but on this occasion she put royal etiquette aside, arriving before Churchill's coffin was in the church.[37] There were 12 pallbearers in the cathedral, including Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the Prime Minister of Australia Robert Menzies, and the former British Prime Ministers Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan.[36] Aged 82, Attlee was frail with ill-health but insisted he be the pallbearer as Churchill had asked him to do the honour.[38] He stumbled on the steps to the entrance of the cathedral, the coffin was almost dropped, and only saved by two soldiers, "pushers", from the back.[39] Burial From the MV Havengore, the coffins was picked up by a black Austin Princess hearse at Festival Pier. The hearse was escorted only by a large limousine for the Churchill family. The coffin arrived at Waterloo Station at 1:23 p.m. and was picked up by ten soldiers from the Queen’s Royal Irish hussars and was placed in a specially prepared train,[35] the locomotive of which was named Winston Churchill that was to carry it to the final destination in Oxfordshire.[52][53] The hearse van, No. S2464S, had been set aside in 1962 specifically for the funeral train.[54][55] In the fields along the route, and at the stations through which the train passed, thousands stood in silence to pay their last respects. Churchill was interred in St Martin's Churchyard in a private family ceremony. He was laid in a grave near to his parents and his brother.[56] T

With Great Pleasure Jonathon Porritt BBC Radio 4 26 12 1990

Ken Sykora From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ken Sykora Host of Guitar Club Birth name Charles Kenneth Sykora Born 13 April 1923 Fulham, London, England Died 7 March 2006 (aged 82) Blairmore, Argyll, Scotland Genres Jazz Occupation(s) Jazz guitarist, radio presenter Instruments Guitar Years active 1950–1998 Ken Sykora (13 April 1923–7 March 2006),[1] born Charles Kenneth Sykora was an English jazz guitarist and radio presenter.[2] Sykora had two older sisters: Rose M. Sykora, born in 1911, shortly after her parents' marriage, and Clara Phyllis Sykora.[3] He studied geography at the University of Cambridge, where he organized the Cambridge University Band Society. He then studied business and economics at the London School of Economics. During World War II, he served as an intelligence officer in the East Asia.[2] After the war, he taught in London at the London School of Economics and the College for Distributive Trades. Influenced by guitarist Django Reinhardt, he led his own band in the 1950s, appearing with other bandleaders such as Ted Heath. During this time he appeared on the Melody Maker reader's poll for best British jazz guitarist for five consecutive years and won it twice.[4] He had a short first marriage to Margery Mileham whom he had married in 1947.[5][6] He married his second wife, cabaret singer Helen B. Grant, in 1957 in Westminster.[7][8] The couple moved to Suffolk, where their three children were born: one daughter, Alison (born 1961), and two sons, Ian Dougal (born 1963) and Duncan (born 1960).[9] During this time he worked on radio for the BBC. He hosted the popular BBC programme Guitar Club. For BBC Radio 2, he created and presented the programme series Be My Guest, interviewing Count Basie, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Andrés Segovia, Isaac Stern and Gloria Swanson, among others.[2] In January 1962 he was a guest on Desert Island Discs. In the 1970s, Sykora and his family moved to Scotland, where the couple ran the Colintraive Hotel in Colintraive on the Kyles of Bute. After five years, he sold the hotel, as Helen, who had a drinking problem, had struggled with such ready access to alcohol.[10] The Sykoras then moved to Blairmore in Argyll, and he continued to produce music programmes for BBC Radio Scotland and for Radio Clyde. Sykora died in Blairmore on 7 March 2006.[4] In 2012, Linda Chirrey and Marc Mason created a documentary film about his life and career, The Man with the Jazz Guitar.[11][12][13] Discography 1954 The Passing Stranger (from the film "The Passing Stranger"), Lonnie Donegan, Oriole Records Ltd, CB 1329 1956 The Third Festival of British Jazz, The Jazz Today Unit, Decca LP LK4180 1957 Ain’t it a Shame (to sing Skiffle on a Sunday), The Bob Cort Skiffle featuring Ken Sykora, DDECCA LP LK4222 1957 Six-Five Special, The Bob Cort Skiffle, Decca F 10892 1958 Ken Sykora presents Guitar Club volume 1, Ken Sykora, Saga ESAG 7001 1958 Ken Sykora presents Guitar Club volume 2, Ken Sykora, Saga ESAG 7002 1958 Ken Sykora presents Guitar Club volume 3, Ken Sykora, Saga ESAG 7003 1987 Vic Lewis Jam Sessions, Volume 5: 1938 - 1946, Vic Lewis, Harlequin Records HQ 3012 2012 The Man with the Jazz Guitar, Ken Sykora, Five Feet Films FFF2CD01

With Great Pleasure The Actress Gwen Ffrangcon Davies 25 12 90

ABBA In Concert Wembley Arena October 1979 BBC R2

The British actress Beryl Reid gives readings from her favourite books and poems.

The British actress Celia Johnson gives readings from her favourite books and poems.

The British actress Celia Johnson gives readings from her favourite books and poems.

The British playwright Alan Bennett gives readings from his favourite books and poems.