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  1. Advent Calendar Day 16: Christmas on Rations

    Advent Calendar Day 16: Christmas on Rations

    Advice, humour and recipes around the wartime rations.

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  2. Meet Helen Clare, wartime BBC star

    Meet Helen Clare, wartime BBC star

    Meet Helen Clare, the wartime BBC star and early television pioneer who remembered her life through the BBC Genome listings.

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  3. 70 years of Woman's Hour: the bouquets and brickbats

    Ana Lucia Gonzalez

    BBC Genome

    70 years of Woman's Hour: the bouquets and brickbats

    As Woman's Hour turns 70, we have a look at how the programme has evolved through the Radio Times covers, the listings and the letters from the public.

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  4. On This Day, 1948: the opening of the first televised Olympics

    On This Day, 1948: the opening of the first televised Olympics

    The broadcasting and televising of the London 1948 Olympics was described as "the biggest operation of its kind that the BBC has ever undertaken."

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