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  1. Advent Calendar Day 24: Turkey Carving, Live!

    Advent Calendar Day 24: Turkey Carving, Live!

    We pay homage to the first Christmas Day TV line-up in 1936.

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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. Man of mystery

    Man of mystery

    A brief glance at illusionist Kuda Bux, who was a star turn on early television.

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  4. On This Day, 1950: Television crosses the Channel

    The first outside broadcast from France was made on 27 August, 1950.

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  5. The Sunday Post: Cookery

    Andrew Martin

    BBC Genome

    The Sunday Post: Cookery

    Demonstrating the arcane and byzantine processes of cookery has been one of the mainstays of broadcasting since its earliest days.

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