Long Lost BBC Dudley Moore Documentary found !

[LanceM]

Hello All,

I was trolling around the net whan I saw this statement issued yesterday on a forum site:

It was reported in the press recently that a long lost Documentary on Dudley Moore, as a young and promising music student, had been unearthed by a BBC Producer researching in the Archives. It was shown
at 8pm last night in the Classic Britannia archive double bill along with the predictable Andrie Preview routine with Morecambe and Wise. Not flagged up at all though and I only taped it inadvertently.
May be on again although BBC4 has [rather confusingly] changed from repeating most things, most of the time, to only doing a repeat late on the same night. Having said that-the three part Classic Britannia series itself HAS been repeated [8pm Friday and again Sunday 7pm] consistent eh!

Great News Indeed, Hope to see this on some release in the future.

Cheers, Lance.

[Andrew Doherty]

I watched this programme the other evening and wondered why I hadn't seen this programme before now. A clip from the same 'Monitor' programme with Peter Maxwell Davies was used in 'Classic Britannia'.

I am certain that any television biography on the life of Dudley Moore, featuring his time as an 'up and coming' music student, would have used this 'Monitor' arts programme long before now.


Yours,

[Andrew Martin]

That's 'long lost' in the hyperbolic sense of the word - it's been in the archive all the time, and catalogued for ages too, so it's just that presumably no-one's looked, or has not been interested because it's not a comedy item as such! The item exists as a film insert, but the complete programme also exists as a telerecording.