The Nutcracker is one of those Christmas traditions that turns out to be not very traditional at all. First performed in St Petersburg in 1892, it didn’t catch on outside Russia until the late 1950s, when Balanchine’s version for New York City Ballet was repeatedly screened on network television in the USA and Festival Ballet’s
John Whitney, who has died aged 92, spent almost 30 highly successful years in the radio and television marketplace before he became director-general of the Independent Broadcasting Authority during the most difficult period in its history.
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