A reminiscent and reflective programme for St. George's Day, 1945. Written and produced by Edward Livesey. A picture of the English character and scene described by the voices of Englishmen and women of today, and illustrated by dramatised scenes and by the work of poets and musicians of the past four hundred years.
The people are a fisherman, an industrial designer, a farmer, a mother, a newsboy, a miner, and an escaped prisoner of war. Narrator, Valentine Dyall. Readers, Hermione Hannen, Joan Murray Simpson and John Arlott.
Music, with special arrangements by Francis Collinson, played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor, Rae Jenkins). Singers, Bertha Willmott, Robert Irwin, Frederick Woodhouse, Jean Greenbough, the West Birmingham Choral Society, and the Shelton Junior Day School Choir.