Broadcasting Flautists

Players who made BBC Broadcasts during the first half of the twentieth century.

1926-1947 (Manchester) 1948-1951 (National)

Frank O’Donnell Harold Clarke

George Rutherford Ronald Gillham

Harry Dobson William Blaise

R.Burgess William Blundell

Arthur Redfern Robert Boddington

Harold Wood Lambert Flack

John Crossley-Hayes Robert Hanlon

Percy Anderton Lionel Solomon

Carrie Millars Albert Waggett

Almena Marshall Winifred Gaskell

Nancy Thirlwell George Barrett

Frank Johnson Gervase Markham

Ernest Fryer Joseph Slater

Roy Richardson Arthur Hedges

Joseph Lingard

J. F. Ridgway

Vernon Harris

Bill Thorn

Note: This is by no means a complete list but all of these flautists were regular broadcasters

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