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Old 22nd Jan 2022, 9:59 am   #4
Ted Kendall
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Default Re: Book: The BBC: A People's History David Hendy

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Originally Posted by dave walsh View Post
Two equally disturbed individuals in my opinion!
Maybe, but each created something of lasting value. It's easy to knock Reith - as easy as it is to forget that events now in the past were once far in the future. This man fashioned public service broadcasting out of whole cloth. Maybe the Manse gave him the sense of purpose to see it through. Was it Russell who said that progress is made by unreasonable people?

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