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Dear Diary

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Simon Brett chooses diary extracts for 11 December.
In 1948 a Mass-
Observation diarist in ration-weary Britain recoils at the latest offering on the butcher's slab, newspaper editor R D Blumenfeld remarks on the sudden popularity of ping-pong in 1902, and in 1936 Lord Reith, as Director-General of the BBC, is present at an historic broadcast bv King Edward VIII.
Readers Sean Barrett , Jane Whittenshaw and June Barrie.
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Simon Brett
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Edward Viii.
Readers:
Sean Barrett
Readers:
Jane Whittenshaw
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June Barrie.
Source: Radio Times

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