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Letter from Richard Dimbleby to Antony Craxton
Richard Dimbley pays tribute to his producer for the Churchill state funeral broadcast.
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1965
Synopsis
In this letter, the much loved broadcaster Richard Dimbleby thanks his producer Antony Craxton for his recent letter. Their work in covering the entire state funeral of Winston Churchill has been deemed a success and here Dimbleby pays tribute to the talents of his long-time collaborator and friend.
Did you know?
As the first BBC producer of royal events for television, Antony Craxton oversaw Queen Elizabeth's first TV Christmas message, Prince Charles's investiture as Prince of Wales and many royal weddings as well as the funerals of Field-Marshal Montgomery and Winston Churchill. Richard Dimbleby's tribute to Craxton here is made all the more poignant by Dimbleby's own death just ten months later.
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