does anyone know where i can buy the channel 4 news theme--aka--best
endeavours by alan hawkshaw on cd--or lp?

The theme music is available in beautiful stereo at:
http://tv.cream.org/themes/themes1.htm, which also says that the theme
was also used in Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider, allows you to download a
beautiful version of the theme.  While the soundtrack of Pale Rider is
not available on CD, you might rent the remastered DVD movie,
available from your favorite movie dealer.  I have not been able to
verify that the Hawkshaw's work is on the soundtrack, however.

Also, this website from the UK lists "Channel 4 Evening News" on a CD
for sale:
http://www.abra.co.uk/SALES/CDS/TVSETS.HTML  (look under "Episode
Four,  Disc One, Track 16")  I'm not positive that's the Hawkshaw
theme, though. There are other websites selling these CD's--just
search for "music factory channel 4".

Before purchasing, you might want to contact the publisher, the Music
Factory at: http://www.musicfactory.co.uk/.  Phone:  +44 (0) 1709
710022.  Email: information@musicfactory.co.uk, to try to verify this
is the theme you want.

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Clarification of Answer by bizguy-ga on 25 Oct 2002 11:04 PDT

I'm sorry, the first paragraph got a little garbled.  I meant to say:

The theme music is available for download in beautiful stereo at: 
http://tv.cream.org/themes/themes1.htm,  which also states that the
Channel 4 theme was used in the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's movie,
Pale Rider.  I haven been unable to verify this fact, however.  You
might rent the remastered DVD movie and invesigate.