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Posted By: ChrisJBrady
01-Apr-12 - 01:55 PM
Thread Name: Radio Ballads Anniversary Programme
Subject: RE: Radio Ballads Anniversary Programme
The 'lost' Birmingham Ballad "The Jewelry" is available at:
http://www.mediafire.com/index.php#8yi2pivbm13n1
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The Birmingham Ballads
"Too Late Tommorrow" - the first of three(*) Radio Ballads produced by Charles Parker for the BBC Midland Home Service about the City of Birmingham.
This programme is about the Birmingham 'Jewelry Quarter' entitled:
"The Jewelry"
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_ballads
http://www.cpatrust.org.uk/Bham_ballads.htm
http://www.mustrad.org.uk/enth13.htm
http://www.pegseeger.com/html/radioballads.html
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(*) hmm - 'three' - that's what the announcer clearly says. Well there's this one. Maybe "Cry from the Cut" and ...??
I wonder if the Radio Times for that period are online and could elicit what the really missing third programme?
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