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Remember He Remembered

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How far back can living memory go? How many generations do reach the beginning of the 19th century?
' I don't think he would realise politically what had happened in Moscow, why they were retreating ... he remembers soldiers hammering on the door ...'
'He was chased by Queen Caroline's mob.... he was dressed for the Coronation, and she was not allowed in ...' 'A A man who was well over 90 came to show us over ... his father had been the jailer ... '
' ... you paid twopence to go in to see the lunatics on a Sunday.'
Joan Yorke presents some more recently recorded memories about life in Britain and on the Continent long ago. Producer
BARBARA CROWTHER

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Joan Yorke
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Barbara Crowther
Source: Radio Times

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