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7 results found for '"Brass band music"' in Keywords.
Network - A life in brass! (1981)
- Genre
- Special; Documentary; Interview
A Life in Brass! A Network programme examining the life of Harry Mortimer, English composer and conductor, who specialised in brass band music. Includes an interview with Harry Mortimer, and recordings of...
Thatcher visits twin town St Augustine (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Music; Speech
Report on UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s visit to St Augustine, Germany as it is twinned with her hometown of Grantham, Lincolnshire. With brass band music; welcoming speech in German and speeches...
Queens Dragoon Guards receive Sword of Peace (1984)
- Genre
- Music; News report; Speech
Report on Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Ferguson receiving the Wilkinson Sword of Peace on behalf of the Queen’s Dragoon Guards at a ceremony at Cardiff Castle, for their peacekeeping work in the Lebanon....
Mardy Colliery return to work at end of miners strike (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Music; Vox pop
Report on the return to work at Mardy Colliery in the Rhondda valley, Wales at the end of the miners’ strike. Includes brass band music as miners return; views from returning miners, who speak in support...
Mardy Colliery return to work at end of miners strike (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop; Music
Report on the return to work at Mardy Colliery in the Rhondda valley, Wales at the end of the miners’ strike. Includes brass band music, applause and views from miners returning to work, who speak in...
Closure of Mardy Colliery (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; Music; News report
John Gripton reports on the pithead community service marking the closure of Mardy, the last remaining colliery in the Rhondda Valleys and reaction to the closure. Includes interviews with miner Len Evans;...
Final perfomance for US military band until the war with Iraq is over (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Music
Report on the US First Armored Division Band performing for the last time until the war with Iraq ends, having played at a number of US bases throughout Saudi Arabia. First Sergeant Michael Morgan,...