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- ↑ "Dragon's Eye on Welsh politics", BBC News, 1 November 2000 [ permanent dead link ]. Retrieved 13 July 2016
- ↑ Geraint Talfan Davies, Nick Morris, Media in Wales: Serving Public Values, Institute of Welsh Affairs, 2008, p.51
- ↑ BBC One: Dragon's Eye. Retrieved 13 July 2016
- ↑ "BBC Wales say high-impact show will replace Dragon’s Eye", Wales Online, 4 January 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2016
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