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417:14 May โ BBC reporter Charles Gardner working in
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445:5 June โ Yorkshire-born novelist and playwright
1299:"Literature Wales: Encyclopedia - Broadcasting"
655:continues unperturbed though covered in debris.
18:Overview of the events of 1940 in British radio
1249:. Special Collections โ University of Bradford
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1245:Cullingford, Alison (14 July 2010).
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408:Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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31:List of years in British radio
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1407:"Matheson, Hilda (1888โ1940)"
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1024:"The Battle of the Ports"
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1325:"History Of The Proms"
1268:Schmidt, Paul (1951).
1093:"Music While You Work"
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1002:. London: Doubleday.
948:Davies, John (1994).
887:1940 in British music
863:Mrs. Patrick Campbell
612:August โ This year's
175:In British television
1272:. London: Heinemann.
1270:Hitler's Interpreter
722:Music While You Work
691:BBC Forces Programme
548:Reichssender Hamburg
530:BBC Forces Programme
521:Music While You Work
391:May โ The evacuated
332:BBC Forces Programme
1144:Gottlieb, Julie V.
404:Neville Chamberlain
1382:The New York Times
1351:"Garrison Theatre"
1148:. London: Tauris.
741:, BBC Home Service
677:Maida Vale Studios
645:Broadcasting House
488:Free French Forces
440:Dunkirk evacuation
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1130:978-0-8444-0385-4
1078:978-0-19-537201-4
1009:978-0-857-52332-7
961:978-0-7083-1273-5
934:978-0-8264-5539-0
828:Tim Brooke-Taylor
788:Annie Nightingale
756:, BBC (1938โ1940)
746:Programme endings
739:The Kitchen Front
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492:Appeal of 18 June
480:Charles de Gaulle
460:, a programme of
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753:Band Waggon
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579:in wartime.
470:jam session
272:Archaeology
1441:Categories
1335:2 November
1253:2 November
1102:11 January
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826:17 July โ
815:11 July โ
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588:Reichstag
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1361:24 March
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1207:18 April
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660:November
484:de facto
478:General
475:18 June
339:February
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