The Great British Experience EMI ( 01 December, 1996 ) Music Our Price : £ 10.99 List Price : £ 11.99 You save £1 (8% off) Prices subject to change. usually dispatched within 2 days.

Excellent

An excellent CD set, almost all the tracks are very familiar, and those that arent are very good too. It also includes the version of Sailing By used at night on Radio 4, right down to the duff bass note after the second middle-eight! Well worth the money.

A total experience in nostalgia

This CD set brought back wonderful memories of my childhood days in London during the 1950s. I remember so many of these tunes including "Emergency Ward 10", "Childrens Favourites" which was a Saturday morning radio habit on the Light Programme, and "Paul Temple" What makes this set so particularly marvelous is that it contains the original recordings of these themes which were mostly unavailable to the public in the 1950s. My one disappointment is that the BBC version of "Barwick Green" is not included, though this is hardly surprising since I have been trying for years to get a copy of it from the BBC, all to no avail. Notwithstanding, there is no question that this is an outstanding treat for anyone who ever heard these programs in the 1950s.

Worth it for the Sea Songs alone

This glorious CD set is worth it if only because its got the unsurpassed Nat Lyll recording of Vaughan Williams Sea Songs on it. OK, old, originally mono, but wonderful. Im sure this was the version Anglia TV used for years to open their broadcasts in the 60s, always followed by my neighbour Dick Grahams voice, btw. Why is this piece so little recorded? Who was Nat Lyll? What happened to light music? Anyway, as others have said, a long afternoon of great enjoyment here.