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The Birth of Television
Overview
In this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.
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Cast
Leslie Mitchell
Self - Presenter / Interviewee
Gracie Fields
Self - Interviewee
Dinah Sheridan
Self - Interviewee
Arthur Askey
Self - Interviewee
Cyril Fletcher
Self - Interviewee
Jasmine Bligh
Self - Interviewee
Elizabeth Cowell
Self - Interviewee
Joan Miller
Self - Interviewee
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