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Books and Authors

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Australia
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How it feels

This is an Australian TV series from the 1950s that talked about books and the people who wrote them. Each episode was a short live broadcast on Sunday.

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What happens

Books and Authors is an Australian television series which aired from December 1956 to September 1957. Broadcast live on Sydney station ATN-7 in a fifteen-minute time-slot on Sundays, the series focused on the authors of books. It is not known if any of the episodes were kinescoped. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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