The Birth of Television

1976

1h 29m

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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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Leslie Mitchell

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Gracie Fields

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Dinah Sheridan

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Arthur Askey

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Cyril Fletcher

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Jasmine Bligh

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Elizabeth Cowell

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Joan Miller

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