Tag: BBC
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Rare BBC screening and talk on Bobbie on 22/07/2018
Summertyne Americana Festival at Sage Gateshead have programmed a special Bobbie event where Andrew Batt compiler of the recent Bobbie Gentry Live At The BBC lp will give an illustrated talk featuring rare images and audio and introduce a special screening of an episode from Bobbie’s landmark TV series for the BBC featuring The Hollies.…
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Meeting Bobbie: A recollection from Violetta Kafourides
I wrote to Bobbie Gentry in the late 60s at the height of the fame of ‘Ode to Billie Joe’, and I was amazed when she replied in person! Sometime later when she came to London to record her her own TV series on BBC2, I decided to go and see her. When I arrived…