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One of Britain's longest-running radio series which started in 1946 and ran for decades.

One of Britain's longest-running radio series which started in 1946 and ran for decades, attracting 10 million listeners a week at its peak.

Down Your Way: Malcolm Bradbury in Beverley

24/12/2016

Malcolm Bradbury in Beverley

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Down Your Way, Malcolm Bradbury in Beverley

Academic and novelist Malcolm Bradbury returns to where he first taught.

4 Extra Debut. Academic and novelist Malcolm Bradbury returns to where he first taught, back in the East Riding of Yorkshire. From March 1990.

Academic and novelist, Malcolm Bradbury returns to the East Riding of Yorkshire to take a tour of the town where he first taught - Beverley. 

A celebrated teacher of creative writing, Malcolm Bradbury is best known for his 1975 novel, The History Man, that satirised life on the modern university campus.

Down Your Way was one of the BBC's longest-running radio series - starting on the BBC Home Service in 1946 and ending its run on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. Using a variety of hosts, including Richard Dimbleby and Brian Johnston, the programme toured villages, towns and cities across the UK. At the height of its success in the 1950s, the series was attracting 10 million listeners a week.

Malcolm Bradbury was born in 1932. In 2000, he was knighted for his services to literature, and died in November that year, aged 68. 

Producer: Kate Whitehead 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.

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