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Why Did We Do That?

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

A new series that explores why controversial policies, fashions and fads take hold.
1: Retarded Railways Chris Bowlby asks why the great British Railways modernisation plan of the fifties ran into the buffers, with dire consequences for today's rail travellers. Editor Nicola Meyrick

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Chris Bowlby
Editor:
Nicola Meyrick
Source: Radio Times

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