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A Spark to Fire the Engine

BBC Radio 3
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The last of three programmes re-examining the Marshall Plan for American economic aid to post-war Western Europe. Presented by John Major of the University of Hull
We had to do it. Europe had to be Put back into the game.... If you are playing poker and someone's out of chips, you can play any more. So you had to start the engine again. Europe had the infrastructure. What they needed was capital.
(SENATOR WILLIAM FULLBRIGHT)
Other contributors include George Ball , Lord Bullock, Sir Alec Cairncross , Milton Katz , Giovanni Malogodi and Robert Marjolin
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Contributors

Presented By:
John Major
Unknown:
George Ball
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Sir Alec Cairncross
Unknown:
Milton Katz
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Giovanni Malogodi
Unknown:
Robert Marjolin
Producer:
Anthony Moncrieff
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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