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Good Old Greyfriars

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The fat owl of the Remove, still hungry, still in trouble, still waiting for that mythical postal order.
Forty years ago the Magnet ceased publication, but the Greyfriars Men go marching on. A portrait by Norman Longmate of the famous school and its creator Frank Richards.
Reader Geoffrey Wheeler.
Narrator David Mahlowe.
The voice of Frank Richards from the disc 'Floreat Greyfriars'.
The school song specially recorded by boys of Manchester Grammar School.
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Written by:
Norman Longmate
Presenter:
David Mahlowe
Reader:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Producer:
Stanley Williamson
Source: Radio Times

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