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The programme began with an announcement by the BBC Home Service, outlining the content of the programme. The first speaker was given as John Hale, but this is believed to be a typo for John Hall.

• John Hall (1892-1958), described in the 1940 newspaper report as John Hall Junior of Bretforton, lived all his life in Bretforton.  He was described in the 1939 register as a Market Gardener (own account).  He gave an account of “gras cutting” (cutting asparagus).  See also pages 2, 8-9, 11, 13, 16, 20, 23-24, 25.
• Charles Arthur Binyon (1874-1963) was a Yorkshireman who arrived in Badsey as a young man of 25 in 1899. For the next 60 years he devoted his life to market gardening and the welfare of the people of the Vale of Evesham. He was President of Littleton and Badsey Growers, 45 years on Badsey Parish Council, and Chairman of Evesham Magistrates Court several times.  See also pages 2, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 15-16, 21, 22.