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The Fifties

on BBC One London

Robert Robinson looks back on the events, politics, sport, and entertainment of March 1952.

In the first Conservative budget since the war Mr. Butler cuts food subsidies and raises car licence fees to £12 10s.; Bill Speakman receives his V.C. at the Queen's first investiture; Oxford win the Boat Race by six feet in a snow storm, and identity cards and the utility clothing scheme end

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Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Director:
Will Wyatt
Producer:
Iain Johnstone

BBC One London

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