BBC Radio 4 People's Post

Subject: BBC Radio 4 People's Post
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 07:40 PM

BBC Radio 4 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post Office

Monday-Friday 13:45 15 episodes starting Monday 5 December 2011

As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook explores the social history of the Post Office.

It's called Royal Mail but it should be known as the People's Post. Throughout its history, the Post Office has been a consistently progressive and democratising force in society.

It became a vehicle for literacy, free speech, commerce and communications in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before evolving into a kind of prototypical welfare state in the early twentieth century, when it was the largest employer in the world.

Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 People's Post
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 08:24 PM

I'd say it has a government-induced identity crisis nowadays, but having driven for them for about nine years, I'll be listening.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 People's Post
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 06 Dec 11 - 12:44 PM

Also available in three omnibus editions on Fridays at 9.00-10.00pm.

The People's Post available on CD as a Radio Times offer for £11.99. At 3 hours, I should think that would take 3 CDs.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 People's Post
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 23 Dec 11 - 06:37 AM

Final episode - 15/15 The Last Post - today on BBC Radio 4 at 1.45pm.

Final omnibus edition - episodes 11-15 - tonight at 9.00pm.

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 People's Post
From: Baz Bowdidge
Date: 01 Jan 12 - 07:37 AM

So the story is not lost I've edited and uploaded all 3 omnibus editions onto Mixcloud:
Click Here - The People's Post - Omnibus
Baz (aka Hal E.Barry)

Subject: RE: BBC Radio 4 People's Post
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 02 Jan 12 - 01:31 AM

Well done, Baz!