Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Tony Wilkinson reports on Reuben Reubens, an avid collector of hundreds of banjos who, ironically, can't find time to learn how to play one. Poor Doreen.

Fortunately, Nationwide have provided a banjo player, Dave Firth, to demonstrate how some of Reuben's banjo collection should sound.


Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 28 March, 1979.





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