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Radio 4 Extra,1 min

‘Savoy Hill’ (1959) Rex Palmer talks to Val Gielgud and Eric Maschwitz about the very early days of radio drama recording.

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Eric Maschwitz remembers that they needed the sound of a seagull for ‘Carnival’.

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