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Telethon, Cambridge

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Women answering telephones during a telethon fundraiser in Cambridge on 28 June 1983. Telethon was a 24-hour live television spectacular aimed at securing donations from viewers for a charitable cause. The first, in 1975, launched the second channel (TV2) and raised over half a million dollars for St John Ambulance.

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