In 1973 he presented a unique 6-part documentary on BBC Radio 1, The Rolling Stones Story, and in 1977 he established a Sunday-night blues and soul show on Radio 1, Alexis Korner's Blues and Soul show, which ran until 1981.

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

They had earlier collaborated on the play Secrets from the BBC series Black and Blue in 1973.

Harlan Ellison was approached by Robert Kline, a 20th Century Fox television producer, to come up with an idea for a science fiction TV series consisting of eight episodes, to pitch to the BBC as a co-production in February 1973.

* 1967: Vanity Fair: BBC miniseries adapted by Rex Tucker starring Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp, for which she received an Emmy Award in 1973.

* 1973: Explorations, BBC

In 1973 he played junior employee Granville in the first programme of the comedy anthology Seven of One, called Open All Hours ( BBC ) and starring Barker as the miserly proprietor of a corner shop.

In 1973 the BBC made a television play Heil Caesar, written by John Griffith Bowen.

BBC Radio 4 aired another full length broadcast in 1973 as part of their Monday Night Theatre series, directed by Ian Cotterell and starring Paul Daneman and Fenella Fielding.

Further BBC radio productions followed in 1971, 1973, and 1980.

The DVD set also includes the only surviving ( and rather poor quality ) recording of Palin and Jones's comic BBC play Secrets from 1973, as well as a documentary by Michael Palin entitled Comic Roots in which he goes back to visit his home town.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

In 2007, the BBC issued The Judi Dench Collection, DVDs of eight television dramas: Talking to a Stranger quartet ( 1966 ), Keep an Eye on Amélie ( 1973 ), The Cherry Orchard ( 1981 ), Going Gently ( 1981 ), Ghosts ( with Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Michael Gambon, 1987 ), Make and Break ( with Robert Hardy, 1987 ), Can You Hear Me Thinking?

* Casanova ' 73 ( 1973 ) as Henry Newhouse ( BBC ) ( sitcom )

In October 1973 he announced on BBC Radio that he wished to be known as Mr Tony Benn rather than as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, and his book Speeches from 1974 is credited to " Tony Benn ".

The show was broadcast in the UK on the BBC and in the US on CBS in January 1973.

The upshot was the world premiere in 1973 of the 28th Symphony, in a BBC broadcast produced by Robert Simpson in Maida Vale Studio 1, and played by the New Philharmonia Orchestra.

He was the narrator of the British animated children's television series The Wombles from 1973 to 1975 and also narrated a celebrated BBC radio adaptation of The Wind in the Willows.

It was also adapted for radio with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Ann Bell as Harriet Vane, also part of a BBC radio series in 1973.

In 1973, Scales teamed with Ronnie Barker in the ( original ) one-off Meat, which aired as One Man's Meat as part of a series called Seven of One, also for the BBC.

She was the subject of the 1973 BBC miniseries A Picture of Katherine Mansfield starring Vanessa Redgrave.

She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.

; BBC documentary ( 1973 )

In the early 1970s Radio Kabul began to broadcast in other languages besides Pashtun which helped to unify those minorities that often felt marginalized, however this was put to a stop with Daoud's revolution in 1973.

They then purchased or merged with Miehle-Goss-Dexter, the largest supplier of printing presses, and in 1973 acquired Collins Radio, a major avionics supplier.

Previous awards included the Variety Club of Great Britain Award in 1969, 1974 and 1980, the Radio Industry Club Award in 1973, 1974, 1977 and 1981.

He was a regular performer on The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a comedy program syndicated nationally to some 600 stations from 1973 to 1975.

* National Lampoon Radio Hour ( 1973 – 1974 ) ( Radio )

Memorable episodes during this period included the stranding of Radio Veronica's ship the Norderney which lost its anchor in a storm and ran aground on Scheveningen beach on April 2, 1973 and a firebomb attack on RNI's ship the Mebo Two on 15 May 1971.

Gilli Smyth & Daevid Allen, 1974Steve Hillage, 1974Between 1973 and 1974, Gong, now augmented by guitarist Steve Hillage, released their best-known work, the " Radio Gnome Trilogy ", three records that expounded upon the ( previously only hinted at ) Gong mythology, Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg, and You.

The mythology is hinted at through all of Gong's earlier albums but is not the central theme until the " Radio Gnome Trilogy " ( 1973 – 1974 ).

He was impressed with Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter ( Radio Electronics, September 1973 ) article and wanted computer projects for Popular Electronics.

* Nemone Metaxas ( born 1973 ) DJ and Radio presenter

Royal Canadian Air Farce began in 1973 as a radio show on CBC Radio.

* The John Peel Sessions-Hux Records HUX086 ( 3 BBC Radio 1 Sessions from 1973, 1974 and 1975 )

abolished license fees for Radio Pakistan and also abolished its tax exempt status protected under PBC Act 1973.

After a spell with Radio Luxembourg, Young joined the BBC as one of the first disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, presenting the weekday mid-morning show from 1967 to 1973 and because of his popularity soon became known as the ' Housewives ' Choice '.

In 1973, he joined BBC Radio 2, where he presented a regular programme ( which he referred to as ' The JY Prog '), until his retirement from broadcasting at the end of 2002.

It featured songs recorded for BBC sessions between 1969 to 1972, Radio 1 jingles recorded in 1973 and 1974, and on the second disc, songs recorded live at the Paris Theatre, London, in August 1972.

A Little Night Music opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on February 25, 1973, and closed on August 3, 1974 after 601 performances and 12 previews.

Chile endured a 16½-year long military dictatorship ( 1973 – 1990 ) that left more than 3, 000 people dead or missing.

The text of the Convention was finalized at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington, D. C., United States, on 3 March 1973.

* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3 ).

Bowie toured and gave press conferences as Ziggy before a dramatic and abrupt on-stage " retirement " at London's Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973.

* 4 solar and 3 lunar eclipses: 1917, 1973, 2094.

Along the way it scored a famous 5 – 3 win in the 1972 – 1973 season that cost AC Milan the scudetto ( the Serie A title ).

The average number of births per woman declined from baby boom a peak of 3. 5 in 1947 to 1. 5 in 1973.

In Texas, " Confederate Heroes Day " is celebrated on January 19, the birthday of Robert E. Lee ; Jefferson Davis ’ birthday had been officially celebrated on June 3 but was combined with Lee's birthday in 1973.

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rightThe Mariner 10 spacecraft launched on November 3, 1973 and was the first to use a gravity assist trajectory, accelerating as it entered the gravitational influence of Venus, then being flung by the planet's gravity onto a slightly different course to reach Mercury.

It was launched on November 3, 1973.

* R v Quick & Paddison 1973 3 AER 397 a diabetic committed an assault while in a state of hypoglycaemia caused by the insulin he had taken, the alcohol he had consumed, and not eating properly.

* 1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States ( on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35 ).

Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch ( 3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973 ) was a Norwegian economist and the co-winner with Jan Tinbergen of the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969.

* The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires that all federal agencies provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable accommodation, which falls into three categories: ( 1 ) modifications and adjustments must be made for a person with a disability to be considered for a job ( 2 ) modifications and adjustments must be made in order for an individual to execute essential functions of the job ( 3 ) modifications or adjustments must be made in order to enable employees to have equal benefits and privileges

3 ( Jul., 1973 ), pp. 187 – 190 in JSTOR on " Get thee behind me, Satan!

" ( Middleton 1990, p. 172 ) See Nattiez ( 1976, 1987, 1989 ), Stefani ( 1973, 1986 ), Baroni ( 1983 ), and Semiotica ( 66: 1 – 3 ( 1987 )).

For comparison the UK 1973 figures were 6. 3 % and 38. 8 %, and the US in 1972, 4. 5 % and 42. 8 %.

* September 3 – Thuy Trang, Vietnamese American actress ( b. 1973 )

* September 3 – Frank Christian, American jazz musician ( d. 1973 )

* January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien, professor and author of The Lord of the Rings ( d. 1973 )

Le Guin's story was originally published in New Dimensions 3, a hard-cover science fiction anthology edited by Robert Silverberg, in October 1973.

* Kreutz, Barbara M. ( 1973 ) " Mediterranean Contributions to the Medieval Mariner's Compass ", Technology and Culture, 14 ( 3: July ), p. 367 – 383

* May 8, 1973 to June 3, 1973: The rover drives 880 metres further