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    14 August 1994

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    16 August 2002

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    16 August 1962

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    16 August 1963

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    18 August 1985

  • Why Don't You...?

    20 August 1973

  • The Moral Maze

    20 August 1990

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    22 August 1932

  • Match of the Day begins

    22 August 1964

  • BBC Monitoring

    26 August 1939

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    27 August 1990

  • First live TV from the continent

    27 August 1950

  • Start of experimental stereo broadcasting

    28 August 1962

  • Elizabeth Cowell first female TV announcer

     31 Aug 1936

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    31 August 1986

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    31 August 2002

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    Summer 1940

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