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The Fifties

BBC One
on BBC One London

Robert Robinson recalls the month of May 1951 when the Festival of Britain began.
Huw Wheldon who helped to put on the Festival describes it as 'a bash at the prevailing woe and the prevailing dinge.'
Michael Frayn remembers the South Bank Exhibition as 'a box of delights, a pleasure-dome.'
There is film of Festival junketings in Cornwall and the Cotswolds, and Robert Donat stars in the Festival film The Magic Box.

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Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Speaker:
Huw Wheldon
Speaker:
Michael Frayn
Director:
Will Wyatt
Producer:
Iain Johnstone
Source: Radio Times

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