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[…]Gaumont British News doing, again, run of the mill newsstories all over the place in England, Scotland and everywhere. And then a job came up with thelight">light">light">BBC, I saw it advertised in the Times, so I thought I would have a go at that. So I got it. I got thisjob with Camera and light">light">light">BBC Television News based at[…]
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