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AS THE YEAR TURNS'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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A record of the Old Year and a welcome to the New. Narrator, John Snagge. Narration written by Robert Barr. Produced by John Glyn-Jones and Michael Standing
In this programme the people of Britain tell their own story of a great year, and voice their hopes for 1944 in a programme illustrated by outside broadcasts from a factory, a coal-mine, a farm, a first-aid post, a Home Guard sentry-post, a war casualties hospital ward, a Naval light coastal craft base, a merchant seamen's club, a Royal Air Force bomber station.
WATCH NIGHT. SERVICE : address by the Rev. A. R. R. Reid of Belmont Church, Glasgow at midnight, followed by greetings to the New Year

Contributors

Narrator:
John Snagge.
Written By:
Robert Barr.
Produced By:
John Glyn-Jones
Produced By:
Michael Standing

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