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Greta Garbo and Jim Henson
The death of Greta Garbo, the way in which television is prolonging the life of movies, and a eulogy for puppeteer Jim Henson, as discussed by Alistair Cooke.
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Fri 18 May 199021:00
BBC Radio 4
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