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Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird) (1887-1965)

Price

£350

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

2 x 3 inches

Illustrated

Punch 12 June 1957, Page 725

Mounted

All reports agree on the immense success of the closed-circuit television broadcast from bart's, and it can only be a matter of time before one of the more enterprising programme companies secures a series for the wider viewing public, starting with a simple tonsillectomy and ending with a block dissection of the neck. viewers have had all they want of childbirth, tropical disease, lung cancer and madhouse documentaries. they deserve to move on. that apart, there will be two other notable advantages - a much needed spur to the perfection of tv colour techniques, and a revival of the dying art of conversation: there has never been anything to set the talk rolling like a really interesting operation

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