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1970 Today Ref: BBC WAC Tx 11.09.70

1971 PM David Allen interviews Burton on location in Fishguard, Wales, during the filming of Under Milk Wood. Ref: BBC WAC Tx 02.02.71

1972 PM Charles Thompson interviews Burton on handing over £45,000 cheque to the United Nations Children Fund. Ref: BBC WAC Tx 07.07.72

1972 Late Night Extra Ref: BBC WAC Tx 09.08.72

1972 The World This Weekend In a feature on the Edinburgh festival, Burton talks about his film, The Assassination of Trotsky. Ref: BBC WAC Tx 20.08.72

1972 Film Time Ref: BBC WAC Tx 23.09.72

1972 Fifty Broadcasting Years Burton reads Under Milk Wood, taken from an ARGO commercial recording. Ref: BBC WAC Tx 17.10.72

1973 Thanks for the Memory Ref: BBC WAC Tx 23.03.73

1975 The Life and Times of Noël Coward Burton takes part in a programme written and narrated by Sheridan Morley. Lord Olivier, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir John Gielgud, John Mills and David Niven also star in the tribute. Ref: BBC WAC Tx 29.06.75 Ref: BBC WAC Tx 10.08.75

1977 Vivat Rex Burton as the story teller in a radio series – 26 episodes – chronicling the English Crown through 200 years of its history by Elizabethan playwrights, including Shakespeare, Marlow and their contemporaries. Ref: BBC WAC Tx 13.02.77

1979 Richard Burton Burton reads poetry by, amongst others, John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and Sir John Betjeman. Ref: BBC WAC Tx 13.11.79

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