Oral history

Object details

Category: Sound
Related period: Interwar (content)
Creator: BBC (Production company)
Allen, Charles (recorder)
Production date: 1974
Dimensions: whole: Duration 191, Number Of Items 7
Catalogue number: 4962

Object associations

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Vernede, Nancy (Oral history)

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Wood, George Neville (Oral history)

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Headly, Derek 'Bill' (Oral history)

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