I have heard part of a piano recital given on the Hindenburg in flight, broadcast by BBC Radio 3 – or, since it was about twenty years ago, probably by BBC Radio Three as it then was. Curiously it is Benno Moiseiwitsch who has remained in my memory as the pianist. Probably I am wrong, but maybe more than one performance was recorded. To hear the performance (or performances) again, I suggest that you should contact BBC Radio 3. I do not know the ideal person to contact, but you could do worse than ask Iain Burnside, who is not only an excellent broadcaster but also a fine professional pianist and a most obliging fellow. (For example, he was quick to remedy what I saw as an omission in his recent broadcast of famous Canadian musicians, by playing a song sung by the lovely Deanna Durbin, the following week, on his ‘Sunday Morning’ programme –and that on a station that is nominally devoted to classical music, jazz and serious drama.) His e-mail address is burnside@bbc.co.uk and it may – I stress may – help to mention my name.

Your website gets better and better; I am particularly grateful for the photographs of LZ130.

Did my observations about the Hindenburg’s dining tables make any sense?

Regards and thanks,
George Timcke

It is occasionally rebroadcast on the BBC and so I thought about contacting them (and possibly NBC as well), but I don’t know who to contact at either company.

Now if we could only find a recording of that concert broadcast from ’36!