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The Archive Hour: George and the Midget

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Dr Alun Howkins tells the story of the writer George Ewart Evans , a Welshman with a hearing problem who, using one of the first portable tape recorders, unlocked the sound of rural East Anglia and pioneered many of the techniques of the modern oral history movement. Producer Nick Patrick

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Dr Alun Howkins
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George Ewart Evans
Producer:
Nick Patrick
Source: Radio Times

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