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Radio Berkshire,5 mins
How Reading launched the first UK reality show
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50 years ago, the first reality television show was broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two. It followed the lives of the Wilkins, a family from Reading. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire's Sarah Walker has been speaking to one of the daughters on the show Marian Archer who shared how it felt to have the film crew become part of their family for six months. Photo credit: subjug/Screengrab from the first episode of The Family (1974)
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