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BBC Election presentation team posed beside the swingometer in a BBC television studio set in preparation for an upcoming election coverage programme on 24th April 1979. From left to right: Social scientist David Butler, journalist Angela Rippon, broadcaster David Dimbleby and sociologist Robert McKenzie (1917-1981). (Photo by United News/Popperfoto via Getty Images)

BBC Election presentation team posed beside the swingometer in a BBC television studio set in preparation for an upcoming election coverage programme on 24th April 1979. From left to right: Social scientist David Butler, journalist Angela Rippon, broadcaster David Dimbleby and sociologist Robert McKenzie (1917-1981). (Photo by United News/Popperfoto via Getty Images)