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Review of the Year 1985
Highlights from Outlook items over the past year
Tourism in Blackpool; James Callaghan; Terry Waite on Libya; Little Richard; Plácido Domingo; Dame Kiri Te Kanawa on being adopted; Clive James; Mark Tully; China's train travel; illusionist David Copperfield in China; Stanley Unwin and 'Unwinese'; Covent Garden buskers; Lenny Henry; Liv Ullmann; Glenda Jackson; Conditions in Sudan; Man of the Year - Bob Geldof.
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1985: How the World Sounded the Year You Were Born—BBC World Service Archive
From a walk across the Isle of Arran to the story of musician Clara Schumann
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