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THE BRIDGE AT WAILING WATERS

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

by PETER MIDDLETON with Bettina Dickson , Bill Kerr
Russell Napier
On Christmas Eve, 1953, as preparations in New Zealand to celebrate a Christmas graced by the presence of The Queen in Auckland were approaching their climax, an appalling railway disaster shocked the Dominion and the world. The story of that tragic event and the heroism displayed by men and women involved in it are reconstructed in this programme.
Narrator, WILFRID THOMAS
Produced by Joe Burroughs
Recorded broadcast of August 15. 1960, in the Light Programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Middleton
Unknown:
Bettina Dickson
Unknown:
Bill Kerr
Unknown:
Russell Napier
Produced By:
Joe Burroughs
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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