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They Dance to Save the World: Every year the Tunebo Indians of Eastern Colombia hold a festival of song and dance in which they chant their beliefs about the creation of the world in order that it shall not end. JOHN TRL'BSHAW went to Cobaria in 1959 with the Cambridge Colombian Expedition and recorded the festival
Music for the Wedding: MARYLIN WAILES bought a hurdy-gurdy to study medieval music but found herself in demand to play for modern marriages
Childhood Days: RICHARD HUGHES talks of the fears and sensations of a child at the turn of the century Edited and introduced by Denys Gueroult

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Unknown:
Marylin Wailes
Talks:
Richard Hughes
Introduced By:
Denys Gueroult
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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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