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Composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky rehearses with the BBC Symphony Orchestra ahead of a concert to be broadcast on the Third Programme, 1958
20th Century

BBC at 100 The Third Programme: a cultural institution

Historian Hakim Adi. (Photograph by Tim Stubbins)
Victorian

15 minutes of fame Hakim Adi chooses Alice Kinloch

A British poster dated 1917 designed by Bert Thomas. (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)
General Modern

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England's Daley Thompson during the high jump event of the decathlon at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Emonton, Canada
20th Century

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The presenters of the recently launched BBC Radio 1 assemble for a group photo outside Broadcasting House, 1967. (Photo by Robert Stiggins/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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BBC at 100 Sounds of the Sixties

In a photograph taken at Bishop's Stortford railway station in Hertfordshire, 1972, resettled Ugandan Asians wait for the train that will take them to their new home. (Photo by Alamy)
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Fleeing Idi Amin: the long journey to a new life

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Statue of William Wallace in Aberdeen
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