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Music Both these offers end on the 15th of May 2021. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorthorn. 70 years ago, Britain was preparing to throw a party.

The Festival of Britain, staged in the summer of 1951, was intended as a celebration of an exceptional nation rising from the ruins of war and looking towards a bright future.

And it certainly was a big hit with the public. That summer, millions of Britons descended on London South Bank and exhibitions across the four nations

to take in an event that dominated Britain's cultural landscape for four months.

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