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(N.Z.P.A. staff correspondent) LONDON, April 17. The 8.8. C. is apparently running into difficulties in trying to sell its television production of “The Forsyte Saga” to the Soviet Union. The problem is not that the Russians do not want to screen the saga, simply that they would prefer to obtain the production through an exchange deal rather than by paying cash for it. In past years the 8.8. C. and the Russians have generally managed to obtain programmes from each other through exchange arrangements. For the saga, however, the 8.8. C. wants cash. Reports suggest it has concluded it cannot go on showing the Moscow State Circus and folk dances forever. Alternative Russian programmes are said to be a little forbidding. One, it is reported, is a quiz show with a prize for the contestant who proved the fastest at stripping and reassembling a tractor.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31658, 19 April 1968, Page 13
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