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Radio and TV

1950

"Music Hath Charms" 18.9.50
- 4QR Australia radio show  with Ron as pianist 
  with the Brisbane Concert Orchestra]

1951

"Ron Grainer pianist"  5.4.51/ 4.5.51/ 4.9.51
 ABC Australia National Radio show  15 minute solo concert

1956

"Port Calypso" 11.7.56
 ITV England variety program

1957

"Street Music" 31.10.56  
 ITV Advertising and Variety program 

1958

"The House of Carols" 23.12.58

Ron Grainer had an acting role in this Christmas special as well as arranging the featured traditional carol tunes from Vienna, Naples, Venezuela , American Praires, Australian Outback, Mexico and Russia
 
1959 * = new entry 

"Camera Test" 6.1.59 to 24.3.59 *
  ITV variety show with Ron Grainer Trio 

"Joanna" 21.8.59 *
   Drive in Bank commercal? 

"Flair"  6.10.59
  Associated Rediffusion Advertising Show 
  Music arranged Ron Grainer
 
1960

"The Facts of Life" 7.4.60

Episode 10 in the first season of ITV's dramatization of Somerset Maughan
short stories. During the play the Ron Grainer Quartet appear as a nightclub act

"Winter Cruise" 28.4.60
Associated Reduffusion TV play Ron appears as a performer
  
1961

"What Manner Of Child" 24.12.61
 BBC TV Christmas graphic art special

1962

"It's A Square World" 26.5.62 episode


 















Ron performing as a pianist accompaning a male vocalist
and three cartoon backing singers in a quirky version of 
the song "Me and My Shadow"

1963

"Master of the Signature Tune" 30 minute BBC documentary 25.5.1963

Ron Grainer conducting studio orchestra and being interviewed by Cliff Michelmore on the use of theme  music in television -

Show Time "63 [bbc radio series performance] 2.6.63

The Englishman Abroad [bbc documentary appearance] 5.8.63

"Desert Island Discs"
  BBC radio show 25.11.63

 1965

"Roundabout" 
  Ron as performer in weekly radio series episode 1.1. 65

"The Mood Man" [interview and tv documentary] 15.4.65

1965

"The Australian Londoners" 28.11.65

Stefan Sargent documentary about expat Australians includes a brief interview  with   Ron Grainer where he explains why he had to leave Australia for career reasons 

1968

"Home This Afternoon" [radio interview] 21.2.68
  Ron Grainer talks about making music that fits

"Short Sleeve Composer" radio interview] 6.5.68
  Ron Grainer talks about his early life in Australia

"Music Round The World" 25.6.68
 [radio series featured guest]

1996 

Dr Who: Origins

Documentary on "The Edge of Destruction" DVD [position 39.06 to 39.58] 
possible  photo of  original Dr Who score - early Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire photos

1996

"Masters of Sound"

Documentary on "The Edge Of Destruction" DVD [position 3.50 -  9.22] and how Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop created the Dr Who theme

2021

"Maigret" 
Complete Rupert Davies TV Series
14 Disc Set
Network DVD 7956171