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The Big Broadcast of 1922

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Keith Waterhouse
Back in the pioneering days of radio, there was a rival station to the British Broadcasting Company called 3LO, deriving its slender income from advertisers' announcements, or commercials as we now call them. This dramatised account of how 3LO reached listeners by the miracles of the airwaves might have come from the long defunct station's programme record library.
BBC Manchester (R)

Contributors

Writer:
Keith Waterhouse
Director:
Tony Cliff
P.V. Plover:
Geoffrey Banks
Alister McAlister:
Russell Dixon
Charity Wemyss-Lightly:
Penelope Lee
Sir Mordecai Brass:
Ronald Baddiley
Julian Spooner:
Nigel Anthony
Albert Bateson:
Cliff Howells
Lady Brass:
Marlene Sidaway
Mr Pearson:
John Jardine
Mrs Pearson:
Sally Gibson
Source: Radio Times

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