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THE SOUND AND THE WAVES

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

The story of the laying of the first Transatlantic Submarine Cable
A dramatised documentary in two parts by ALAN DIXON
The men who forged the vital two-lhousand-mite link between the Old World and the New, were ill-equipped to conquer the six-mile deeps of a mighty ocean. Yet their courage and genius not only harnessed the new power of electricity but were to place a girdle of sound round the Earth. Produced by Herbert Smith
Part 1
Part 2: next Wednesday

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Unknown:
Alan Dixon
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Source: Radio Times

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