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The British Seafarer

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

A history in 26 parts 22: Unions
- in the everyday life of the sailor from the 1760s to the 1920s.
' You can organise shore people but seafarin' people are very suspicious of everything you try to organise ... '
Readers HENRY KNOWLES , CAROLE BOYD , MICHAEL SHANNON , JOHN HOLLIS ,
STEVE HODSON , ANTHONY HALL and LEONARD MAGUIRE
Programme consultant and presenter
Norman McCord ,
Professor of Social
History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Compiled and directed by MICHAEL MASON
Book (same title), £9.95 hard back., :t5.95 poperback, from bookshops

Contributors

Readers:
Henry Knowles
Readers:
Carole Boyd
Readers:
Michael Shannon
Readers:
John Hollis
Unknown:
Steve Hodson
Unknown:
Anthony Hall
Unknown:
Leonard Maguire
Unknown:
Norman McCord
Directed By:
Michael Mason
Source: Radio Times

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