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On This Day

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The news of 50 years ago today, with Geoffrey Wheeler. Film and theatre critic James Agate dies and an attempt to get round post-war beer shortages is foiled with the discovery of an illicit brewery in the bathroom of a pub in Preston.

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