Starring Gracie Fields, Dinah Sheridan, Arthur Askey, Cyril Fletcher, with television's original presenters Jasmine Bligh, Elizabeth Cowell, Joan Miller and Leslie Mitchell.
Leslie Mitchell announced the official opening of the first high-definition public television service in the world an 2 November 1936. Forty years later, from the same studio at Alexandra Palace, he traces the origins of television from the beginning of this century to the first outside broadcast - the coronation of George VI in May 1937.
(A Mirror of the World: Wed R4 7.30 pm)
