Corin Redgrave introduces the BBC's critically acclaimed oral history project. It formed a main part of the BBC's millennium celebrations on BBC local radio and has been specially adapted for rebroadcast on Radio 4 in an eight-part series.
An account of the 20ttvcentury experience told by the people who lived it. This is the spoken testimony, the story of what it was to be alive during the century that has passed. These are the fascinating insights and personal recollections of people of all ages and from all walks of life. The programme used the recordings collected in the biggest project of its kind ever mounted in Europe. 1: Where We Live - the Landscape and the Townscape. Graphic accounts of changes to our towns, cities and countryside. Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick
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