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1964: What's in a Name? | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
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5:29Now PlayingWhat's in a name? Specifically, the name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Tonight's Julian Pettifer reports from the little Anglesey village, located on the on the Menai Strait, by the Britannia Bridge. What's the story behind that preposterously long moniker?
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 18 August, 1964.
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