Major Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who in April became the first person to travel into space, is interviewed at the 1961 Soviet Trade and Industrial Ex...

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Major Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who in April became the first person to travel into space, is interviewed at the 1961 Soviet Trade and Industrial Exhibition at Earls Court. The interviewing panel is comprised of the BBC broadcaster, Richard Dimbleby, Sunday Times science editor Tom Margerison and the Soviet television service commentator, Yuri Fokin.

Translation is handled by the interpreter Boris Belitsky, of Radio Moscow’s English service.

Clip taken from Yuri Gagarin, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 14 July, 1961.