Inside Broadcasting House, the Department of Recorded Programmes was sometimes called the Seraglio, because its Director found that he could work better when surrounded by young women.
An edition of Human Voices
(1980)
Human Voices (Flamingo)
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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In the height of enemy bombing during World War II, a series of human dramas unfolds as the BBC transforms its concert hall into a dormitory for men and women, conflict erupts between two departmental directors, and sixteen-year-old Annie falls hopelessly in love.
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Teenage girls, British Broadcasting Corporation, Fiction, Radio broadcasting, Great Britain, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, historical, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, war & military, New York Times reviewed, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Large type books, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924Places
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"Inside Broadcasting House, the Department of Recorded Programmes was sometimes called the Seraglio, because its Director found that he could work better when surrounded by young women."
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