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Radio Lives

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Six portraits of the radio famous.
Today, a broadcaster who, according to his Times obituary, brought to the airwaves "the essentially literary quality of a vanished world, that of an essayist of the days before electronic news gathering."
3: A Special Correspondent. Peter White explores the personality of his radio idol Rene Cutforth , tracking his career from Korean War reports to Australian margarine commercials. Producer Nigel Acheson

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Peter White
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Rene Cutforth
Producer:
Nigel Acheson
Source: Radio Times

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