Alan Bunce
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257 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
Alan Bunce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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With half a million men in the Royal Navy, it is inevitable that there should be some coincidence of names and ranks between characters in this book and officers and ratings now serving.
That is so inevitable that the author has made no attempt to avoid any such coincidence.
All he can do is to assure the reader that he has attempted neither portrait nor caricature of any living person.
You'll find that written on one of the front pages of a book I read a few days ago.
The Ship by C.S.
Forreston.
The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with the Council on Books in wartime, brings you another in its series of radio adaptations of great books of this war.
Each week at this time, we bring you selected dramatic episodes from some of the most stirring of our war-inspired literature.
Tonight's story...
The Ship by C.S.
Forrester, eminent English author of Captain Horatio Hornblower and other fine books.
Adapted for radio by Edmund Burnbrier.
The ship is a glorious yawn about a glorious British vessel and the men aboard her.
A novel.
Yet as you read it, you feel you're reading facts.
It's tough, authentic, gripping, this yawn.
I read it and I was excited.
I hope you will be too.
If the convoy didn't get through, Malta might fall.
The convoy had to get through.
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