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The Fifties

BBC One
on BBC One London

Robert Robinson looks back on September 1952
Tea comes off the ration. Charlie Chaplin returns to Britain. John Derry, the first British pilot to fly faster than sound, dies when his D.H.110 breaks up at Farnborough: his observer and twenty-eight spectators are also killed. The film The Sound Barrier is on release.

6.0-6.15 Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

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Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Director:
Will Wyatt
Producer:
Iain Johnstone
Source: Radio Times

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