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Tales from the South China Seas

on BBC Radio 4 FM

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Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East Asia in the days of the Empire, in the words of those who were there. 5: The Land of the White Rajahs
' A Dyak longhouse contains as many dogs as people and In any one longhouse there may he anything from 30 to even 100 families, each family will have its own cocks and hens and pigs ... so that the noise and the scratching and cock-crowing and grunting and yelps and pitterpattering backwards and forwards across the floor do tend to make for a somewhat disturbed night ... '
Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS Of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON

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Music By:
Jonathan Gibbs
Unknown:
Charles Allen
Producer:
Michael Mason

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