BBC documentary about the rise of early electronic music, use of synthesisers and the work of the radiophonic workshop. Michael Rodd surveys the use of synthesisers,computer & multi-track recording techniques to create the new sounds of electronic music.
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Michael Rodd as Self
Rick Wakeman as Self
Peter Zinovieff as Self
Roger Limb as Self
Paddy Kingsland as Self
Peter Howell as Self
Malcolm Clarke as Self
Dick Mills as Self
David Feig Camera Operator
Michael Turner Sound
Derek Medus Sound
Alan Dykes Sound
Pauline Dykes Editor
John M. Mansfield Producer
John M. Mansfield Director
United Kingdom 05 June 1979
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01 January 1979
A handsome fighter and a beautiful martial arts warrior are foced to combine forces to combat a mutual enemy.
25 August 1979
Taking the stage with the sun sinking in the West, Cheap Trick opened their Reading Festival appearance aptly with the raucous, quick-hittin' action of "Hello There", followed by the power pop rockin' "Come On, Come On".
27 November 1979
John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater.
24 July 1979
A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband.
07 December 1979
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.
17 November 1979
An under-taker (Renzo Montagnini) unintentionally raises three accident victims from the dead while reading out-loud from a zombie pulp novel.
28 May 1979
It is an Epic story based on the book Virata Parva of Mahabharatha. After 12 years of Vanavasam, the Pandavas spend their 13th year of exile the Agnaadhavasam in an incognito state with disguised identities at the court of Virata.
17 August 1979
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah.
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