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[…]e 1 Alan Lawson 0:03 The copyright of this recording is vested in the ACTT History Project. Tony Bridgewater, senior light">light">light">BBC Television engineer, pioneer television engineer. Interviewer, Norman Swallow, and Alan Lawson recorded on the 28th of June 1990. Side one No[…]