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BBC World Service's 70th Birthday

When the World Service started, quantum physics and relativity had just been invented, DNA was a mystery and polio vaccine was decades away. This special edition commemorating the 70th birthday of the BBC World Service looks forward to how science might develop over the next 70 years.

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23 minutes

BBC World Service Archive

BBC World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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