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Great Lives

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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

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Great Lives: Episode 3: Beachcomber

Beachcomber

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Episode 3: Beachcomber

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Beachcomber

The Snowman author Raymond Briggs chooses JB Morton, aka Beachcomber.

4 Extra Debut. The Snowman author Raymond Briggs chooses JB Morton, aka Beachcomber. With Matthew Parris and Richard Ingrams. From December 2008.

Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. 

Raymond Briggs celebrates Beachcomber, the newspaper columnist who inspired both Spike Milligan and Private Eye. Richard Ingrams offers details of the column's early life and the current Beachcomber reveals his own influences.

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