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- ↑ Part of Adelaide Hall’s historic live BBC telerecording from Variety in Sepia: Adelaide Hall
- ↑ An original BBC photograph of Adelaide Hall on the set of Variety in Sepia, 1947.
- ↑ Listings, BBC Television, October 1947.
- ↑ Listings, BBC Two, July 1992. Radio Times, 1923–2009.
- ↑ Stephen Bourne, "Black and White in Colour (1992)", BFI Screenonline.
- ↑ Stephen Bourne, Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television, Continuum, 2001, p. 64, ISBN 978-0826455390.
- ↑ Simon Vaughan, "Live From Alexandra Palace - BFI Event". Forum for former BBC staff, 25 August 2011.
- ↑ "From Birth to Teens: TV’s Earliest Years at BFI Southbank". Press release, August 2011, BFI.