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- ↑ Radio Times listing - retrieved 13 January 2024
- ↑ Jonathan Stubbs, ‘Always ready to explode into violence!’ Representing the Cyprus Emergency and decolonization in The High Bright Sun (1965) Journal of European Popular Culture Vol 6 Issue 2 2015
- ↑ TV Brain entry - retrieved 13 January 2024