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Tales from the South China Seas

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Six programmes
Themes and variations from the lives of the British in South-East Asia in the days of the Empire, in the words of those who were there. 4: The Men Who Would Be Kings
' In 1925 1 was posted to Perak to relieve
Humphrey Berkeley. I was received by Berkeley. who was dressed, as he always was, in Malay costume. He used to drive himself in an English landau and pair ... when he showed me round and we came to tho courthouse he said. " Here we dispense justice but not law ".' Narrator Garard Green Special music by JONATHAN GIBBS of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Berkeley.
Music By:
Jonathan Gibbs
Unknown:
Charles Allen
Producer:
Michael Mason
Source: Radio Times

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