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'Gordon at Khartoum '

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A commemoration and a tribute written and produced by PETER CRESWELL
This dramatic chronicle for Broadcasting, reconstructed from the existing records, presents various episodes in General Gordon's career, while the story itself is unfolded by the four Commentators.
Among other voices heard are
Major-General Charles George Gordon C.B., R.E.
Mr. Gladstone, Prime Minister of England
Sir Evelyn Baring (later Lord Cromer)
Slatin Pasha
Major Herbert Kitchener , R.E.
Mr. W. T. Stead, Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette
Mr. Frank Power, Times correspondent at Khartoum
Mohammed Ahmed , The Mahdi of Allah
Also
Newspaper Correspondents, Members of Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet, Members of the Khedive's Government in Cairo, Sudan Arabs, Dervishes of the Mahdi's army, etc., etc.

Contributors

Produced By:
Peter Creswell
Unknown:
General Charles George Gordon
Unknown:
Sir Evelyn Baring
Unknown:
Slatin Pasha
Unknown:
Major Herbert Kitchener
Unknown:
Mohammed Ahmed

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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