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United Nations' first reporters
A recollection of the first gathering of the UN, the celebrity journalists who covered the meeting; Joan Stitt McMenamin, the outgoing headmistress of Nightingale-Bamford School.
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Fri 19 Jun 1992
21:00
BBC Radio 4
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- Fri 19 Jun 1992 21:00BBC Radio 4
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