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  1. Wartime Broadcasting Announcement - Read by Peter Donaldson.

    Duration: 00:54

  2. John Piper

    Duration: 01:56

  3. Woman's Hour

    Duration: 08:47

  4. Opening of the Lisnagarvey Transmitter - 20th March 1936.

    Duration: 01:07

  5. Douglas Byng at 90

    Duration: 05:15

  6. V.E.R.A. - Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus

    Duration: 01:30

  7. Antiques Roadshow - Evelyn Dove

    Duration: 02:44

  8. Evelyn Dove

    Duration: 02:43

  9. Imagine: And then there was TV

    Duration: 01:43

  10. Eastenders

    Duration: 01:43

  11. Morecambe and Wise

    Duration: 02:07

  12. 500th Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

    Duration: 15:46

  13. Monty Python graphics

    Duration: 00:31

  14. Carol Hersee Test Card model

    Duration: 00:36

  15. Did You See

    Duration: 07:29

  16. One Foot in the BBC

    Duration: 12:55

  17. Edward VIII Abdication

    Duration: 07:31

  18. Edward VIII Abdication

    Duration: 07:31

  19. Blattnerphone

    Duration: 10:25

  20. BBC Testcards audio slideshow

    Duration: 02:25

  21. Lord Orr Ewing on how TV won the Battle of Britain

    Duration: 00:38

  22. Tony Bridgewater talks about the opening ceremony of the television service

    Duration: 02:41

  23. Sir Noel Ashbridge talks about Television, past present and future 1936

    Duration: 01:35

  24. James Redmond talks about early TV sets

    Duration: 01:39

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