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BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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Leader, Laurance Turner
Guest conductor, Joseph Lewis (First broadcast performance)
Haydn Wood's stirring march The torch of freedom ' is written in admiration of Winston Churchill and dedicated to him in the following words : Dedicated by kind permission to the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill , M.P., Prime Minister, whose great and encouraging speeches in this year of peril 1940 have been an inspiration to us all.'

Contributors

Leader:
Laurance Turner
Conductor:
Joseph Lewis
Unknown:
Winston Churchill
Unknown:
Winston Spencer Churchill
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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