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1983
1983x9
Just Barbara
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Barbara Woodhouse, in conversation with Joan Bakewell, reveals some of the highlights of her life.
1983x10
Gaughan
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Billy Kay talks life, and music with Scottish Singer-Songwriter Dick Gaughan.
1983x5
The Mysteries of Hieronymus Bosch
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Interpretations of Bosch's paintings have been varied and extreme: heresy, alchemy, drugs, witchcraft and, the most popular, that he was a member of a secret sect which practised orgies. .. show full overview
1983x2
Elizabeth - The First Thirty Years
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Thirty years ago this week Elizabeth II was crowned. This programme celebrates and assesses the Queen's changing role and conveys something of the nature of the job itself. It shows the .. show full overview
1983x3
Blue Peter Flies the World: Morocco
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Highlights of the team's expedition to Morocco begin this celebration of Blue Peter's 25th birthday year. In 1968 Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves set off on an epic .. show full overview
1983x6
London to Brighton in Three and a Half Minutes (Side by Side)
Episode overview
In 1953 the BBC produced a short black and white film of a train journey from London to Brighton in four minutes. The journey was repeated in 1983. Here are the two films side by side in wide screen. (c) 2008 on end of film.
1983x4
Old Scores
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Documentary in which the survivors of the eleven members of a Belfast schoolboy football team in 1969, talk about their experience of the troubles in Ireland and about two others members .. show full overview
1983x7
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
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Ian Holm narrates this documentary, originally broadcast in 1983, about Hollywood star Bette Davis. Spanning her life and career from the 1920s to the 1980s, on stage and on screen, the programme includes an interview with the actress herself.
1983x8
Dylan Thomas: I Sing to You Strangers
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Rene Cutforth introduces Dylan Thomas's friends, relatives and fellow broadcasters, who give an account of the person he really was.

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