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Quarantine, Quicksand, Quarter staff, Queen - (the first women鈥檚 magazine founded in 1861), Queen鈥檚 tobacco pipe, Rabbit-shooting, Rain, Ration and Refugees. Looking at the letters Q and R in the series which scours old encyclopaedias to give a flavour of the period in which they were written.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project