Menuhin at Eighty: A Celebration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

• Concert for Menuhin’s Eightieth Birthday, Royal Albert Hall, London, April 1996; includes short pre-recorded contribution by IB
• Recording date (concert): 20/4/96
• First audio transmission: 7.30 pm 12/10/96 BBC Radio 2
• First video transmission: 2.05 pm 24/12/96 BBC2 Television
• Duration: 2 hours 7 minutes 35 seconds (concert); 25 seconds (IB: starts at 39:54)
• Producer: Richard Masters
• Presenter: David Attenborough
• Transcript: ‘He’s very sensitive to the sufferings of mankind. He hates armies. He hates nationalist conflict. And I’m sure he thinks that by going about from country to country, and by meeting musicians, and by making friends with them, and having a kind of international dimension to everything which he does, he does good.’
• Recording: BBC; BFI