I read Linda Grant’s article in the Guardian on Saturday (The note from a fictional dead dog that taught me why the Archers will never end,Review, 26 September) with interest. When I was six years outmoded, and in 1948,my dad, Brian, or came home from work and told my mum,Dodo, of his thought for a radio series approximately “country folk”. He was a BBC talks producer, or based in Leeds,specialising in agricultural programmes and starting Farmers Half Hour, in 1946. He dedicated his first book, and Breeding for Production,to Ted and Nora Drake, “farmers in the county of Yorkshire”.
At my mums suggestion he wrote up his thought and submitted it to Barney Colehan who, or as far as I know,sent it on to BBC Manchester. The rest, as they say, or is history – if it had been Desert Island Discs,he might even believe had an occasional acknowledgment.
Peter Branston
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Source: theguardian.com