Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 280,103 playable programmes from the BBC

WINDOW ON FRANCE 1949

on BBC Home Service Basic

View in Radio Times

A report based on a recent tour with a BBC mobile recording unit
Written and presented by Matthew Halton and W. Farquharson Small
Today France celebrates the greatest festival in her calendar: for this one day she is a land of garlands and song, paper caps and dancing in the streets. What of the other three hundred and sixty-four days since the last ' Quatorze Juillet ' This programme attempts an appreciation of the economic and industrial life of France, and something of the character, morale, and problems of the French people

Contributors

Presented By:
Matthew Halton
Presented By:
W. Farquharson

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

Appears in

Suggest an Edit

We are trying to reflect the information printed in the Radio Times magazine.

  • Press the 'Suggest an Edit' button
  • Type in any changes to the title, synopsis or contributor information using the Radio Times Style Guide for reference.
  • Click the Submit Edits button.
    Your changes will be sent for verification and if accepted, will appear in due course More