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Happy birthday, Charlie Chaplin
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Charlie Chaplin, and a personal recollection of the comic actor delivered by Alistair Cooke.
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Fri 21 Apr 1989
21:00
BBC Radio 4
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Things We Forgot to Remember: Chamberlain and 'Peace for our Time' 1938
Michael examines Neville Chamberlain's 1938 declaration of 'peace for our time'.
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- Fri 21 Apr 1989 21:00BBC Radio 4
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