Posted by Peter H on June 15, 2003 at 21:45:45 from 213.122.210.252 user Peter_H.
Today I was looking through a copy of ‘Radio Times’ for the last week of November 1948 (I have an interest in post-WWII radio), when I spotted the following programme listed for Monday, 26 November, BBC Third Programme, 10.55-11.05 pm:
‘A Chapter from
ROD AND LINE
Read by its author
Arthur Ransome
(BBC recording)’
Those were the days. AR was living at Lowick Hall at the time, so I presume that he recorded the programme in Manchester. There is no follow-up on succeeding evenings, so it looks as if this was one of a series of weekly 10-minute readings from ‘Rod and Line’. I suppose the chances of any of these recordings still existing are nil. I don’t know for sure what sort of equipment they were recorded on, but I imagine that an early form of tape would have been used which, even if kept and not wiped, would be unplayable by now.