Robert Miles

Item on ‘Today’ this morning.

Must have been very special working on this show just before his death.

Dave Beer

Yes indeed it was. Although I had only been in the Beeb for a couple of years, it is still one of the most memorable programmes I worked on. I have attached a copy of the camera script I have kept all these years along with a 7″ reel of a recording the Sound Assistant did for me back then, (can’t remember his name unfortunately). The mixer was of course Hugh Barker and I was tracking the heron with crew 11, probably Ron Green was the supervisor who of course isn’t mentioned on the camera script! The tape still sounds as good now.

Nick Ware

Fascinating! My name isn’t on the script either, but I was the Gram Op on that show, and I still have the audio tape to prove it! I say tape, but the original 1/4” was scrapped years ago, now preserved as a WAV file. Eight tracks including his closing band credits and reprise of “Hello, Dolly”.

Band members that he credits on this recording are:

Billy Kyle – piano

Ronnie Catlip (spelling?) – bass

Tyree Green – trombone

Eddie Shu – clarinet

Danny Barcelona – drums

Joe Brown – oboe

So there must have been more than one Louis Armstrong show.

And please, folks too young to remember, it’s Louis, not Lewis, though confusingly, in Hello Dolly he does sing “…this is Louis” with and without the “s”.

Interestingly, none of the sound clips in that BBC radio item sound anything like my recording, so presumably not from the actual show in TVT.

Years later I got to know Michael Hurll much better at LWT.