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Helena Millais: Britain's first recorded broadcast comedian

Wednesday 18th November 2020

As cockney character Our Lizzie, Helena Millais appeared on Marconi's 2LO London station on October 20th 1922, two days after the BBC formed as a company and three weeks before the BBC's first broadcast. Hear her in action via this feature.

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