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Much Binding in the Marsh
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Much Binding in the Marsh

Broadcast · 1944 · Weekly

BBC

BBC · 1944–1949

Broadcasts

7

Cadence

Weekly

Rated

PG

Since

1944

The run

Network
BBC
Years active
1944–1949
Surviving broadcasts
7
Genre
comedy

Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch at a fictional aerodrome that nobody remembered to close — the demob comedy that carried service humour into peacetime. Public-domain transfers from the Internet Archive's surviving off-air recordings.

Source collection

Internet Archive audio collections

Rights

Public domain — no renewed US copyright

Cataloguing

Air dates and notes from the Archive item record

Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: much-binding-in-the-marsh

The shape of the run

What survives, year by year

0 dated broadcasts across 6 years on the air, with 6 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.

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1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording

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