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Wilfred Pickles

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Wilfred Pickles

The first man to read the Âé¶¹Éç news in a non-standard accent, Wilfred Pickles went on to have a hugely popular broadcast career. Here he is asking ordinary people to ‘Have a Go’ in 1947.

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