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Front Page: 6: The Great Occasion

on BBC Home Service Basic

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Stories behind the headlines told by the people who made them.
Many of the great occasions in the history of the last quarter of a century have been recorded, and in this programme some of them are recalled; including the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the transfer of power in India, the Festival of Britain, V.E. Day, and the sounding after 3,000 years of the trumpets of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

Contributors

Writer:
Gordon Cruickshank
Narrator:
Alexander Moyes
Produced By:
Denys Gueroult

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