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BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

Introduced by Kenneth Allsop.
This week:
Compton Mackenzie talks about My Life and Times from 1923 to 1930. Octave Six of his autobiography was published last week, in which he claims to be Britain's first disc jockey.
Reyner Banham reviews Pop Art by Lucy R. Lippard
Stuart Hood reviews The Real Enemy, Pierre d'Harcourt's account of his experience in the French Resistance and in Buchenwald
Francis Hope on new fiction
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson

Contributors

Introduced By:
Kenneth Alisop
Talks:
Compton Mackenzie
Unknown:
Reyner Banham
Unknown:
Lucy R. Lippard
Unknown:
Stuart Hood
Produced By:
Jocelyn Ferguson
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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