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George Bernard Shaw sends TV crews packing on his birthday
麻豆社 News visits the Hertfordshire home of George Bernard Shaw as the postman delivers a pile of greetings cards on his 94th birthday.The 'grumpy' playwright stages his 'chucker out act' for the cameras, as he wants nothing more than to be left in peace on his birthday. First broadcast on 28 July 1950. Shaw died on 2 November that year.
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