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A Canal Too Far

BBC Radio 3
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The Suez crisis of 1956 both hastened and symbolised
Britain's loss of great power status. What do the recently released official papers reveal about the events that led to Britain's humiliation?
Peter Hennessy talks to many of the senior surviving figures, who speak freely for the first time about the operation.
They include a former Prime
Minister, Lord Home, as well as Sir Guy Millard , Eden's private secretary, and Marshal of the RAF, Sir Dermot Boyle. Producer MARK LAITY

Contributors

Talks:
Peter Hennessy
Unknown:
Sir Guy Millard
Unknown:
Sir Dermot Boyle.
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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