Today's Star-a-Gram is Petula Clark.
John Benson with more music from British films, Plus Petula Clark reminiscing about her early years as a child star.
Finian's Rainbow
Petula in conversation with John Benson.
Sounds of the 60s. Including an archive interview with Petula
With The AM Alternative. Special guest Petula Clark.
Jenni Murray meets Petula Clark, who is celebrating 50 years in showbusiness.
Moira Stuart pays tribute to Edric Connor, singer, actor, and one of Britain's earliest celebrities. The programme includes a feast of song, and the memories of Petula Clark.
While touring the US in Blood Brothers, Petula appeared as Guest Disc Jockey on this Minneapolis, Minnesota radio station.
Joined by special guest Petula Clark.
Recorded 25 October, 1996.
A gala concert from the Hippodrome, Golders Green, London, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Martin Loveday, conducted by Kenny Clayton and Martin Yates. At 8.20, during the interval, Sheridan Morley chats to Petula Clark about her career.
Bonnie Langford looks at the kids who have entertained, enthralled and engaged our attention over the decades. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, of course, Julie Andrews and Petula Clark,Elizabeth Taylor and Margaret O'Brien, Tatum O'Neal and Macaulay Culkin, along with Lena Zavaroni, Shirley Temple, Hayley Mills and, naturally, Bonnie Langford herself.
With guests Gene Wilder & Petula Clark.
Chaplin wrote the music for all his films. His daughter Josephine introduces this celebration of his music, featuring contributions from Petula Clark and Chaplin's biographer David Robinson.
Six part radio series narrated by Petula who talks about and plays the music of many of the famous stars of British musicals. Programme One recalls some of the great women of Britain's Silver Screen, including Cicely Courtnedge, Evelyn Laye, Betty Driver, Jessie Matthews.
Programme two
concentrates on several of the great male stars of British film musicals including Jack Buchanan, Jessie Matthews, Jack & Claude Hulbert, & Richard Tauber.
Programme Three:
Black song and dance legends: Leslie Hutchinson, Turner Layton, Mabel Mercer, Elisabeth Welch, Paul Robeson.
Programme Four:
Leading ladies of the silver screen: Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Ellis, Gracie Fields.
Programme Five:
Stars of the war-time musicals: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Pat Kirkwood, Anne Shelton, Arthur Askey, Bertha Willmot.
Programme Six:
More popular stars of wartime musicals: Vera Lynn, Jean Simmons, Patricia Burke, Sid Field, Tessie O'Shea.
I'll Imagine You a Song, Rise & Seize the Day, America the Beautiful.
Interview. UK tour promotion.
Interview. UK tour promotion.
Interview. UK tour promotion.
Lynn Parsons tells the story of the Twist, one of Britain's most energetic and enduring dance crazes. Short interview revolving around Petula's contribution to the dance crazes of the sixties.
The Kitsch Show!
Four illustrated reflections on kitsch. Richard Dyer, professor of film studies at Warwick University, asks how intellectuals can enjoy what they know to be kitsch without resorting to inverted commas. He wonders if he can ever return to a simple appreciation of the Queen, The Waltons or The Sound of Music. He finds an answer in two different versions of Could It Be Magic? (by Take That and Petula Clark ) and the Italian love song Grazie Dei Fiori.
Petula Clark celebrates 50 years in the record business with friends and colleagues, including Sacha Distel, Sir Peter Ustinov, Honor Blackman, Tony Hatch and Don Black. Producer Alison Quinn.