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Home This Afternoon

on BBC Home Service Basic

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
New Life Down Under:
Peter Wheeler talks to Cecil Whalley, who 'retired' to Australia
The Bodleian: May Hankey talks about the Oxford University library, where her father was once librarian
For Your Library List: some suggestions from Jill Balcon
You asked us to play... record requests
Introduced by Polly Elwes

Contributors

Talks:
Peter Wheeler
Unknown:
Cecil Whalley
Talks:
May Hankey
Unknown:
Jill Balcon
Introduced By:
Polly Elwes

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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