Various Artists: Radio Days (2011)
In RADIO DAYS, we take a dip into the true golden age of radio, from the war years though to the coming of television. In those years, the BBC built its reputation as the greatest, most respected broadcasting organisation in the world and gave the British people scores of the most inventive and most magical programmes ever - Take It From Here, The Archers, Journey Into Space, Variety Bandbox, The Goon Show, Twenty Questions, Ray’s A Laugh, Waterlogged Spa and many more. The very best of them were destined to leave an indelible mark on the culture of the nation.
We focus here on three shows that became part of the very fabric of life during those sometimes difficult post-war years. In its own way, each of the three had a clear social purpose – Workers’ Playtime to boost the morale of the workers in the factories on whose productivity the economy depended, Housewives’ Choice as a thank you to those millions of women who had kept the munitions and aircraft industries going during the wa
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