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Tales from the South China Seas

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A new series of six programmes
Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East
Asia in the days of the Empire, in the words of some of those who were there.
1: Slow Boat to China: Foundations and Beginnings
And at last over the horizon about 12 o'clock in the morning a little cluster of trees appeared. Brilliant sunshine, blue sea, huge enormous Asian sky of clouds, and clustering under it this little block of land:
South-East Asia! The very beginning of the great romantic east, the island empires of which I
Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHANGIBBS BBC Radiophonic Workshop compiled by CHARLES ALLEN
Producer
MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Ciiarles Allen
Producer:
Michael Mason
Source: Radio Times

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