Search Results: 40 years of british television by harbord jane and

London: Box Tree, 1995. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good. The BBC which l had launched the world's first television service in 1936 was about to lose it monopoly. On 22 September 1955, in a rather stuffy ceremony screened from London's Guildhall to te 188.000 people in Lonson who could receive the new service, ITV was born and the modern television age had begun. tight;clean;chip and bumping to corner AB36