Bing Crosby in The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll

The actress and singer Elizabeth Mcgovern

(Downton Abbey’s Lady Cora) marks the 40th anniversary of Bing Crosby’s death and the 70th anniversary of Crosby’s Philco Radio Time, the first programme recorded on magnetic tape. Alongside music and archive recordings, Mcgovern hears how Crosby was influential in adopting and popularising tapes, which would revolutionise radio, and looks at the eventful final month of his life, which he spent performing and recording in England.