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The Long March of Everyman: 13: Arcadia? The British Countryside before the Industrial Revolution

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Themes and Variations from the History of the People in Britain, based upon their own words.
What was the British countryside like, before the Industrial Revolution, for those who actually earned their daily bread in it?
Composed and produced by Michael Mason, under the direction of Joan Thirsk, Reader in Economic History in the University of Oxford, who also speaks the commentary.
The series of 26 programmes created in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Michael Mason

Contributors

Programme created, composed and produced by:
Michael Mason
Under the direction of/commentary spoken by:
Joan Thirsk
Special music:
David Cain
Programme realisation:
Dick Mills
Programme realisation:
Lloyd Silverthorne
Musicians:
Early Music Consort of London
Musicians directed by:
David Munrow
Reader:
Ronald Herdman
Reader:
David Valla
Reader:
Jane Knowles
Additional commentary:
Michael Drake.
Additional commentary:
Jacquetta Hawkes

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