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World Service,01 Jan 1990,3 mins

Zedenek Hron

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Zedenek Hron from Prague in Czechoslovakia describes what the BBC meant to him under communist rule in the 1960s and 1970s. "My first impression was the beautiful language, the beautiful style and the rendering of news which was always treated in a fair way, in stark contrast to the communist way."

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