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Tributes to Churchill
Richard Dimbleby hosts tributes to Winston Churchill from his friends and colleagues. The programme concludes with a Panorama archive item on Churchill's life. (1965)
Richard Dimbleby hosts a collection of tributes to Winston Churchill from his friends and colleagues. Contributions come from Churchill's Foreign Secretary Lord Avon (formerly Anthony Eden, his successor as Prime Minister), Lord Mountbatten, the Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, Governor Harriman of the US State Department and former Prime Minister of France Paul Reynaud. The programme concludes with an item from an earlier edition of 'Panorama' on Churchill's life. (1965)
Last on
Mon 25 Jan 196520:25
Did You Know?
The report from a previous Panorama that ends this programme comes from an edition broadcast on 27 July 1964. The report by Michael Barratt marked Churchill's last day in the House of Commons as the great man retired from public life.
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Broadcast
- Mon 25 Jan 196520:25
Remembering Winston Churchill Collection
This programme is available online as part of the Remembering Winston Churchill Collection
