by JANE CLARKE and JOH!
THACKARA THE CONTROVERSY which has greeted Before Hindsight, a about orary newsreel LONELI Tent lars iournalists as it doc about the Thirties. After all, the material in this documentary is forty years managed to set the BBC and ITV humming.
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