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The Preposterous Files: Episode 1: Tardis

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Episode 1: Tardis

Tardis

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Deciding the design of the police telephone box proved to be a dauntingly complex process.

Julian Putkowski presents a series on cases that show up Civil Service bureaucracy. 1/5: Deciding on the design of the police telephone box proved a dauntingly complex process.

Certain files held in the National Archive are preposterously large, why? 

Julian Putkowski distills certain files down, discovering how civil servants make the policies that govern our lives. 

At the same time Sherlock Holmes used a gang of boys to gather and disseminate information the Metropolitan Police began working on the high tech version. But what was the real purpose behind the humble Police Box?


Producer: Matt Thompson
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.

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Julian Putkowski presents a series on cases of Civil Service bureaucracy at its worst

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