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Continuous Performance: Part 2: The Talkies

BBC Home Service
on BBC Home Service Basic

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The story of the development of the cinema from the magic lantern to the Royal Command Performance
Contributors include: Al Jolson, Robert Donat, Tommy Handley, Muir Mathieson, C.A. Lejeune, Bessie Love, John Longdon, and D. W. Griffith
Narrator, Stewart Granger
Programme written by Roy Plomley and produced by Peter Eton
Tonight at 9.30

Source: Radio Times

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