Before the war

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"A very curious incident happened at Southampton ..."

A World War One veteran recalls spending the last ten shillings that he had a a visit to a reknowned Frenologist in Southampton and the subsequently gloomy but accurate forecast he received prior to joining the war effort in 1914.

From: Once There Was a Time
First broadcast : 1 March, 1961

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