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World Service,01 Jan 2002,3 mins

Joan Sherley

Listeners' Tales

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New Zealander Joan Sherley tells of the time she heard King George on the radio in 1932. "We listened with great interest to this man on the other side of the world. Later on I learned it was Kipling who had actually written his script."

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