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Articles about Leslie Mitchell
A New Vision
Published 2 November 2021
Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service
Slick – that is the new TV
Published 12 April 2021
It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…
‘ITV was the start of the Coca-colonisation of Britain’
Published 29 October 2018
In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955
The John Baird
Published 3 August 2018
The [now-Royal] Television Society attends the opening of a pub commemorating the developer of TV
Rediffusion’s voices of authority
Published 17 December 2017
⧉ A gallery of Rediffusion continuity announcers with audio clips
► Twist and shouting
Published 16 October 2017
On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV