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Public Eye - First Episode
Television (Excerpts) – 1988
Richard Taylor, who is making an Ellie Smith puppet, takes some white lumps out of the microwave. "I'll just start pushing the margarine around to get the shape - she's going to be very tricky."– 'Public Puppetry' - NZ Listener, 22 October 1988
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