Broadcast history

BBC Radio 4

Light at the End of the Chunnel

23 April 2007
Presented by Sean Street
Produced by Alan Hall

Sean Street presents an edition of The Archive Hour tracing the history of the Channel Tunnel metaphorically, politically and as an act of imagination.

With an archive cast that includes Prime Ministers Gladstone, Churchill, Thatcher and Jim Hacker, as well as Queen Victoria, the French poet Jacques Darras, the political commentator Anthony Howard and the Anglo-French musician Rebecca Brown.

"this is an example of The Archive Hour slot working at its best"
The Radio Times

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