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of celebrations to mark the platinum jubilee. in about ten minutes�* time, well have this weeks edition of newswatch, but first, its time for unspun world. apologies, it is click. this book was... writing this magic faraway tree book... we are back and its brilliant. after an unbelievable three years, the hay festival is back to its full glory. gathering together authors and thinkers, bookworms and those with the writing bug. its all the same to me. ijust like writing — cant stop. ...

Of how the microphone sounds. well, we can hear it in use by sirjohn snagge, the bbc voice who made the first announcement of the d—day landings and who went on to become one of the first bbc television news readers. he specially recorded with the microphone for this demo tape. this speech is recorded from a bbc marconi velocity ribbon microphone type ax bt. ill leave it for you, then, to make up your own mind on how that sounds. for lack of time, it was not possible... interference. that was ...