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Year ‘21

Episode 8: The Big Picture

Duration: 14 minutes

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This week it’s pomp and propaganda at the pictures. In 1921, the news shown before the main feature was carefully curated, as Ciara Chambers, author of Ireland in Newsreels, explains. We find out how audiences didn’t always take kindly to ‘fake news’. Show less

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