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THE WORLD OF BOOKS

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

KENNETH ALLSOP introduces a selection of news about current books and talks to LESLIE THOMAS about his novel The Virgin Soldiers, a story about Army life in Malaya
WALTER ALLEN on other recent fiction
ANTHONY BURGESS on Russia
GERALD DURRELL on Bernhard Grzimek 's Wild Animal White Man
Produced by Joseph Hone

Contributors

Introduces:
Kenneth Allsop
Unknown:
Leslie Thomas
Unknown:
Anthony Burgess
Unknown:
Gerald Durrell
Unknown:
Bernhard Grzimek
Produced By:
Joseph Hone
Source: Radio Times

BBC Home Service Basic

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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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