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Tony Britton raises the cry of Hip Hip Hooray for ... Telegraphy and the Two-penny Tube!
A seriously lighthearted look at some of the inventions which helped to change the 19th century into the 20th. and to those days when so many of the things we now take for granted were marvels, novelties - or yet to come. With TIMOTHY BATESON
OLIVE GREGG , FRASER KERR and songs by SHEILA MATHEWS, -PETER REEVES and CHARLES YOUNG WITH HIS SINGERS AND MUSICIANS
Devised and compiled by GERALD FROW
Producer JOHN DYAS (Repeated: Wed 8.45
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
See letters: page 83

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Britton
Unknown:
Timothy Bateson
Unknown:
Olive Gregg
Unknown:
Fraser Kerr
Songs By:
Sheila Mathews,
Songs By:
Peter Reeves
Unknown:
Gerald Frow
Producer:
John Dyas
Source: Radio Times

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