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Spaghetti Hoax
On April 1st 1957 a team of BBC journalists played an April Fool's joke on the British public. They used a serious news programme to air a feature about the 'harvesting' of spaghetti in Switzerland. Witness speaks to Michael Peacock, then editor of Panorama.
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