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Building the Audience—Series 1

2/3 BBC TV’s first female newsreader, Nan Winton, tells the story of how she was sacked.

Accident and Opportunity—Series 1

1/3 The eyewitnesses and participants in the BBC’s history recount its triumphs and disasters.

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