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Some readers may recognize this image - BBC test card F, shown since 1967 while the station was off the air. As one BBC reporter noted, a "never-ending game. The poker-faced, Alice-banded girl locked in eternal combat with the gurning stuffed clown. It's reminiscent of the feudal knight taking on Death at chess in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ... only with noughts and crosses, in colour, after the pubs shut."
My way of saying I may be off the air for another day or two and thus have to post the Friday poem late.
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