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* The Interval FIRST ROUND THE WORLD

on BBC Home Service Basic

by ALVAR LIDELL
Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe? ALVAR LIDELL thought he knew. But a chance encounter with a statue and a priest during a holiday in Spain led him to the true and little-known facts.

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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