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Broadcast of Top Score on BBC TV including segments on origami by Robert Harbin, 1963/4
 

The children's magazine programme 'Top Score' was broadcast on BBC TV from October 1963 to April 1964 at 17:10 on Thursdays, alternating with the better remembered 'Crackerjack'. Inter alia it featured segments where Robert Harbin demonstrated origami.

The programmes in which Robert Harbin is listed as a presenter in Radio Times are:

17th October 1963

31st October 1963

14th November 1963

28th November 1963

12th December 1963

9th January 1964

23rd January 1964

6th February 1964

20th February 1964

5th March 1964

19th March 1964

2nd April 1964

16th April 1964

30th April 1964

None of the listings confirm that he featured origami rather than magic during these segments, but it is likely that this was the case.

There is no record of which designs were taught during these shows.

As far as is known no recordings of these shows or segments have survived.

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