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  1. 38 seconds ago

    1941: Vivienne Westwood was born. In 1996, she spoke to Carol Smilie and had a few things to say about the Spice Girls.

    "What, in fact, people are marketing is disgusting behaviour."
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  2. 16 hours ago

    1982: Madame Tussauds was preparing to add a touch of class to its collection, with the addition of Dame Edna Everage.

    3 replies 23 retweets 94 likes
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  3. 18 hours ago

    1983: How would you best showcase the delights of North West England to Southerners? A black pudding eating competition, obviously.

    4 replies 27 retweets 49 likes
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  4. 20 hours ago

    1977: The Book Programme looked back at the literary world of 1935, when the first Penguin books were published.

    10 replies 29 retweets 112 likes
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  5. 22 hours ago

    1993: Eyeing up a game of solitaire? It’ll take patience.

    7 replies 24 retweets 90 likes
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  6. 24 hours ago

    1950: Newsreel celebrated the latest advancements in weather forecasting.

    6 replies 20 retweets 67 likes
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  7. Apr 6

    "This is the motor show with everything." 1971: Luxury automobiles, wacky experimental models and a dash of trendy celebrity glamour were wowing petrolheads in New York.

    1971: Wheelbase
    "The man who will buy this car I'm leaning against at this moment does not know that he is going to buy a Rolls Royce."
    3 replies 18 retweets 74 likes
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  8. Apr 6

    1958: Future Led Zeppelin guitar hero Jimmy Page and his teenage skiffle bandmates made their charming debut on children's television.

    1958: All Your Own
    "What are you going to do when you leave school - take up skiffle?"
    26 replies 248 retweets 795 likes
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  9. Apr 6

    1986: Francis Ford Coppola discussed how the "television mind" and commercial forces were reshaping cinema.

    7 replies 27 retweets 86 likes
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  10. Apr 6

    1983: Ebony investigated claims that some Liverpool nightclubs were turning away black customers.

    1983: Ebony
    "Black club-goers face a real dilemma - their own clubs in Liverpool 8 are closing down and many white-owned clubs won't let them in."
    8 replies 27 retweets 89 likes
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  11. Apr 6

    1964: Panorama reported on Mods and Rockers. Can't we all just get along? Watch the full version on -

    11 replies 92 retweets 272 likes
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  12. Apr 6

    1961: Impressionist Rory Bremner was born. He's pictured here in 1988 as himself.

    7 replies 9 retweets 60 likes
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  13. Apr 5

    "You'd think that you couldn't have too much beauty." Think again. Macdonald Hastings reported from Wiltshire on the problems caused to farmers by swans in 1962.

    1962: Tonight: Swans
    "It's almost impossible to imagine anybody with soul so dead they couldn't love a swan."
    10 replies 17 retweets 55 likes
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  14. Apr 5

    If you've had your fill of eggs over the past few days, look away now. Nationwide's Mike Dornan reported on Bob, the (unofficial) raw egg eating champion of Britain in 1972.

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    1972: Nationwide: Eggman
    12 replies 28 retweets 81 likes
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  15. Apr 5

    "If you have a grotty little car you drive in a grotty little way." That's Life took to the streets to find out more about road rage in 1981.

    1981: That's Life: Drivers
    10 replies 39 retweets 147 likes
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  16. Apr 5

    When was the golden age of Cornish wrestling? "Whenever it was, it isn't now..." Tonight went to see the latest revival of the sport in 1965.

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    1965: Tonight: Cornish wrestling
    3 replies 24 retweets 60 likes
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  17. Apr 5

    The Money Programme, believed to be the world's longest running business affairs programme, debuted in 1966. Pictured here is presenter Brian Widlake in 1970.

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  18. Apr 4

    1970: Kurt Vonnegut discussed Slaughterhouse 5, eternity, and his mother-in-law on the Review programme with James Mossman.

    1970: Review: Kurt Vonnegut
    "I think that we are doomed through eternity to repeat this programme."
    7 replies 42 retweets 160 likes
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  19. Apr 4

    Too many big chocolate eggs? Want to use the leftovers to make some small chocolate eggs? Then look no further than this Blue Peter make with Christopher Trace, broadcast in 1966.

    1966: Blue Peter: Easter treats
    5 replies 23 retweets 68 likes
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  20. Apr 4

    1959: Alan Whicker visited a Japanese pearl farm and showed us the extraordinary 'ama', women pearl divers, who worked there.

    1959: Whicker's World: Japan
    8 replies 39 retweets 151 likes
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