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BBC Four repeats 1976 documentary 'The Birth of Television'
Original: 'The Birth of Television' first shown in November 1976 is repeated on BBC Four/BBC iPlayer tonight 1.20am. Introduced by
'The Birth of Television', a BBC documentary first broadcast in November 1976, is being repeated on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer at 1.20am tonight. The programme is introduced by Leslie Mitchell, the presenter who opened the BBC Television Service in 1936, and revisits the pioneering broadcasters and engineers of television's early years, with a Radio Times article accompanying the broadcast.
Why now: A nostalgic late-night repeat of a classic 1976 BBC documentary marking television's early history, timed with Radio Times coverage.
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- 'The Birth of Television' first shown in November 1976 is repeated on BBC Four/BBC iPlayer tonight 1.20am. Introduced by Leslie Mitchell who opened the BBC Television Service in 1936. Radio Times article on those pioneering broadcasters and engineers # television · andywalmsley@mastodonapp.uk · 1
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