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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Richard Dimbleby
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(1913–65) After a pioneering career as a correspondent for BBC radio, Dimbleby gave British television its first widely remembered broadcast with his commentary on the coronation in 1953. His resonant phrases, reinforcing each viewer's unprecedented experience of seeming to be present at such an occasion, provided for many in Britain their introduction to an exciting new medium. Dimbleby was also the anchor man on British television's first major political programme, *Panorama. Twenty-five years after his early death, from cancer, he was given an honour unprecedented for someone known for the spoken rather than the written word, that of a memorial in *Poets' Corner.
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