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1972: The Historic Building Investigator | Look Stranger | BBC Archive

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1958: Free Speech for Fascists? | Panorama | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1984: "The Glasgow Style" with Peter Capaldi | Spectrum | Fashion | BBC Archive

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1959: What Worries the People of Sheffield? | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1980: Young Arsenal and Man United Fans on the FA Cup Final | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1969: The Vanishing Railway | Gone Tomorrow | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1984: What it Takes to be a Champion Dog | Champion Maker | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive

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1968: Whicker's World of Horror | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1973: Mr Moon's Missing Budgie Bureau | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1962: The People Who Live on Spurn Point | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1970: Mindset of a Marathon Man | Look Stranger | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1983: A Package Holiday to Benidorm | Forty Minutes | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1984: Making The Living Planet | Making of Documentary | BBC Archive

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1972: The Life of a Football Apprentice | Scene | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive

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1983: Is the "Andy Capp" Man a Thing of the Past? | Scene | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1980: Meet the WINDOW CLEANERS of London | Nationwide | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1964: How to Make a Television Drama | Monitor | Making of... | BBC Archive

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1985: A Good Job With Prospects | Job Bank | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1966: A Roof Over Your Head - The Tenant | Man Alive | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1979: Kirkintilloch's Men of Iron | A Diary of Britain | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1988: What is a Computer and how does it Work? | Electric Avenue | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

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1983: Is there too much Sex and Violence on TV? | Fair Comment | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1970: Sheffield's Haunted Nightclub | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1983: Living With the Threat of Nuclear War | Vox Pop | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1975: Surviving For Two Weeks on the Garvellachs | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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2001: The Future of Artificial Intelligence | Knowledge Talks | Predicting the Future | BBC Archive

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1974: The Man Who Talks to BEES | Look Stranger | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1969: Meet Killarney's 5-Year-Old Golf Prodigy | Nationwide | BBC Archive

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1993: The Rise of Phone Cloning in NYC | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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1978: The Ancient Sport of Road Bowling | Scene Around Six | Niche Sports | BBC Archive

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1961: Coventry - 21 Years After the Blitz | Target City | Voice of the People | BBC Documentary

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1991: Life in the Windermere Fire Brigade | Forty Minutes | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1977: Johnny Ball and the Fun of Mathematics | Think of a Number | BBC Archive

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1988: Pop, Shops and Personal Data | Electric Avenue | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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1962: The Story of Britain's First Electric Street Lamps | Tonight | BBC Archive

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1985: Get Ready for 3D TV! | Tomorrow's World | Retro Technology | BBC Archive

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1976: A Morning With the Fruit and Veg Men | Look Stranger | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1974: Gandolfi Brothers Handmade Cameras | Industrial Grand Tour | Making of... | BBC Archive

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1956: The END OF THE LINE? | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1979: Life in a Shinty Town | A Diary of Britain | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1963: Six Days to Saturday | Classic Football Documentary | BBC Archive

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1972: Mother Thames - Lady of the London docks | Look Stranger | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1964: The Curious Case of Australia's Uranium Town | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1978: Truck of the Future? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

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1974: The Explosive World of "Blaster" Bates | Look Stranger | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1984: Looking for Love in LISDOONVARNA | The Mating Season | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive

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1975: Is Life in INVERNESS Getting Better? | All Change | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1980: Ruefrex - Belfast Punk Documentary | Cross The Line | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

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1969: The Cost of BRITISH MOTORWAYS | Nationwide | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

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1976: ROBERT REDFORD on Fame, Freedom and Watergate | Classic Movie Interviews | BBC Archive

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1969: Computer Banking and the end of Cash | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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1974: Rich Life, Poor Life | Scene: What Does Money Matter? | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1979: Fish and Ships in North East England | A Diary of Britain | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive

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1975: Could YOU Live off the Land? | World About Us: Back to Nature | BBC Archive

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1974: 150 Years of the RNLI | We Never Turn Back | BBC Archive

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1974: Working in a Traditional English Brewery | Industrial Grand Tour | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1963: The Life of a Local Newspaper | In View: Paper Roots | Making of... | BBC Archive

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1978: Real life Mumsnet of the 1970s | Grapevine | BBC Archive

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