The fact is that the BBC in some absurd misinterpretation of an economy drive in the 70s, recycled and TAPED OVER most of their classic TV shows. believe it or not, so there aren't any archive programmes to show. Absurd lack of foresight of course ... typical public body. I don't watch a lot of TV, but at the moment in the UK there's a sickening trend of 'let's appeal to the insecure hard-pressed 30-somethings with regressive nostalgia clip shows about their childhoods' ... endless 'the 100 greatest TV something-or-other shows' with archive material and interviews ... cheap TV to make, since it's all just dug out of the vaults. The problem IS of course that all the REALLY good archive stuff isn't there to dig out, so it's all inane 80s pap that gets thus re-hashed.

I actually have dim adolescent memories of that 1972 'Film Night': Philip Jenkinson (never one to miss a chance to mention a Rozsa score in any film he reviewed in his columns) and someone with a beard, possibly Sheridan Morley. I've memories of footage of the Parade of the Charioteers and the 'King of Kings' prologue sequence and Rozsa saying about the latter film, "I didn't see what all the fuss was about" but in what context I can't recall. Or was that a different one? The whole thing was not long after the RPO Filmharmonic concert I think.

This recent Radio 3 thing was OK ... apart from the usual misconception about the 'Anno Domini' theme being 'Roman' all the info was accurate. I thought Wilder had wanted a Berlioz 'Fantastique' approach rather than the Franck though for 'Double Indemnity'. Can anyone enlighten?