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Film on the subject of "growing up" in Scotland during the first half of the twentieth century, as remembered by Mary Baxter, Jean Gray, Finlay J. Macdonald, Jimmy Reid and Billy Connolly.
Commentary by John Carmichael.
Clip taken from Scotland This Century: Growing Up, originally broadcast on BBC One Scotland, 17 September, 1984.
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Film on the subject of "growing up" in Scotland during the first half of the twentieth century, as remembered by Mary Baxter, Jean Gray, Finlay J. Macdonald, Jimmy Reid and Billy Connolly.
Commentary by John Carmichael.
Clip taken from Scotland This Century: Growing Up, originally broadcast on BBC One Scotland, 17 September, 1984.
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