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References
- ↑ https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/ca8614241e4a45269f796d3f20f4f8a8 [ bare URL ]
- ↑ "Broadcast - BBC Programme Index". 13 March 1937.
- ↑ "On This Day in TV History".
- ↑ Jamieson, Alastair (16 April 2003), "Muffin the Mule kicks back to life", The Scotsman , archived from the original on 11 February 2017
- ↑ Jane Phillips, 'Hogarth, Ann (1910–1993)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, 2004 accessed 10 Feb 2017
