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1979: Why Collect Stamps? | In the Post | BBC Archive
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25:09Now PlayingIn The Post is a series of programmes on the subject of stamp collecting, introduced by Gwyn Richards and Jill Cochrane.
The first programme in the series asks the obvious question and provides some of the answers. In the studio, actor, documentarian and collector of Boer War postal material Kenneth Griffiths, Dr. Douglas Latto, obstetrician, philatelist and practical joker, and Dr. Jean Alexander, one of the few women prominent in the stamp world.
Clip taken from In The Post, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 8 January, 1979.
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